November 24, 2022

Condo plan heard

By Wayne E. Rivet Staff Writer

Harden recused him self from the Planning Board as Craig Burgess, a senior project manager for Sebago Technics, Inc., out lined the proposed devel opment on an approxi mately 9.89-acre site off Mountain Road.

PB Chair Deb Brusini noted that “new evidence” had been submitted at 4 p.m., thus leading officials to keep the hearing “open” to their next scheduled meeting on Dec. 6.

Burgess gave an over view of the project, which includes:

• Eight duplex (two unit) condos and a single unit for a total of 17. All units will have a two-car garage. Units 11-13 will have two bedrooms, while the other

units will have three bed rooms. Originally, the pro posal called for 20 units, but was scaled down to 17, Burgess said.

• Access to the devel opment will be by a new driveway located to the west side of Mountain Road. It will be 600 feet in length. A “satellite” park ing lot will be developed across the street.

• Burgess pointed out that one change from the original application is the project will be served by three wells, not two. The change, Burgess noted, was made due to feedback and a means to “avoid more stringent setback requirements.”

• There will be four dis posal systems.

• Buffers will be gener ally maintained along the perimeter of the subject parcel.

• Underground power, cable and telephone will be

extended from Mountain Road.

• The condominium generally conforms to Bridgton’s cluster housing development standards. The minimum density requirements are reduced to 5,000 square feet given that duplex units will be served by a common water system and shared waste water disposal systems.

Common open space of at least 15% of the buildable area will be preserved for each unit.

• Stormwater runoff will be directed toward one underdrained soil filter for detention and treatment. The proj ect is located within the Moose Pond watershed.

A Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) Stormwater Law permit will be sub mitted for the creation of greater than 20,000 square

No Naples biz license? Court date on horizon

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer

NAPLES — Locally elected town officials say that a handful of businesses which have not applied for a business license are in violation of a town ordi nance.

Now, the town plans to publish the names of the businesses in the area news paper.

Slightly more than two months ago, the Town of Naples sent certified letters to the eight businesses (8) that have yet to obtain a $10 business license for 2022.

There has been abso lutely no response to the certified letters, according

Naples Town Manager John Hawley.

Last week, Hawley asked the Naples Board of Selectmen for guidance going forward with resolv ing the violation infractions.

Chairman Jim Grattelo had an idea.

“My recommendation is to publish these eight in the newspaper. That is what I would do. That would be my next step. Let all the taxpayers in the Town of Naples know who is not paying,” Grattelo said.

“The next step is going to court, right? We would recoup our legal fees through the fines. So the town is not out any money,”

Grattelo said.

He was referring to the fines of $100 a day that have been accruing since Sept. 15, when the certi fied letters were officially received.

“I’d say take the next step. Everyone else in town has paid” for a business license, he said.

Selectman Ted Shane calculated that as of Nov. 15, the fines would total $6,000.

“We have given every one ample opportunity to do this. We even did a grace period back in June. But the ordinance does require they have a license, and these

WWII, Bob Carlson: Tale of

By Dawn De Busk Staff Writer

HARRISON — Bob Carlson has a record of every flight he took from his time as a tail gunner on a B-25 in the South Pacific during World War II.

He referred to his log book and a world map as he talked about his experiences serving in the Marine Corp’s aviation division from 1943 until 1945 when the war ended.

His job was not one that people coveted. Carlson was a tail gunner on a bomb er plane. Each plane had a crew of seven including the pilot. Carlson sat in the very cramped end of the plane surrounded by ammunition.

The models of planes weren’t luxurious like the commercial ones today, he said. The planes were pretty primitive 70 year ago, he said.

“The planes were com pletely stripped of all air conditioning or any insula tion at all. When you got into the plane, it was like getting into an aluminum tube. The sweat would be pouring off you, and you’d freeze,” he said. “I was on my knees on a bicycle seat that was underneath my butt. I was on my knees all the time. Sometimes, it made it diffi cult to crawl out to get back into hatch again.”

It was an ordeal getting into position in the first place, he said.

“To get in there, there is a hatch underneath. You crawled into it and left your parachute behind. You had ammunition on both sides of you. Once you got in it, you weren’t going to get out until the flight was over. There was no way to get out if the plane got damaged,” he said.

At 96 years old, Carlson has the distinction of being the oldest World War II vet eran in the Town of Harrison. Given his job as a tail gun ner, just staying alive was either an amazing feat or a luck of the draw or both. After all, the statistics from WWII show that coming out alive was not favorable for the men aboard those bomb ers.

“During the whole war, 51% of aircrew were killed in operations, 12% were killed or wounded in nonoperations accidents and 13% became prisoners of

war,” according the Imperial War Museum (IWM).

“Only 24% [of air crew] survived the war unscathed,” according to IWM’s article Life and Death in Bomber Command

“The average death rate of a WWII gunner is 46%.

got tighter. More explosive material was packed into the plane’s tail as the crew pre pared for impact.

“I was getting a little bit, well, damn concerned at the time,” Carlson said. “Usually, a plane doesn’t leak. Oil started to come in

Surviving A Close Call

Carlson described one brush with death.

“Coming home from a mission, the pilot called me and he said that the front wheel was leaking hydraulic oil and he wasn’t sure if it was going to last when he lowered it. He said for me to stay in my position. Don’t leave. He wanted to save the engines so he was landing on the tail. The crew was told anything that is loose put it in the tail,” he said.

The space around him

and it soaked me with oil. I was right where I couldn’t do a damn thing. I was packed with ammunition.”

“I had a pistol. The mili tary gave it to us for some thing like getting shot down or getting captured by the Japanese. It was easier to put a pistol right under the chin and pull the trigger than to die like that. If was going up in smoke, I wasn’t going to burn to death and I was going to shoot myself,” he said.

“The front wheel locked,” and he walked away from what seemed like it would be an injurious landing.

Out of 125,000 aircrews with gunners, more than 57,000 were killed in action,” according to Wikipedia.

A 17-unit condomini um project proposed by Dan Harden of Picarden LLC was presented to the Bridgton Planning Board at last Tuesday’s public hearing.

WAR MEMORY — John Robert “Bob” Carlson, 96, holds a colored drawing of a bomber plane from World War II. (De Busk Photo)

OUTDOOR DECOR — On the Friday before Thanksgiving, in preparation for the holidays, Bridgton Public Works employees, Cory Fitch (left) and James Marion, strung up lights in the trees in a public park along Main Street. (De Busk Photo)

PROJECT LAYOUT — A 17-unit condominium project is being proposed on Mountain Road.

DUPLEX SKETCH — The plan calls for construction of eight duplex structures, each with a garage.

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“I didn’t even go to debriefing when it landed. I just went back to my tent. This time, I had very little religion left. Where do we go from here?”

Many years after the war ended, Carlson purchased the home that had belonged to his family. It is the same home in Harrison where he had been born in January 1926.

He found healing from the war by repairing the house and working the land, he said.

“I think it was the best therapy I could ever have,” he said.

Enlisting and Going Overseas

Carlson was 15 years old on Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese military attacked the U.S. military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Shortly thereafter, America entered the war.

Carlson was too young to serve when the war began. He recalls farmers saving metal for the war effort.

Carlson enlisted in 1943. He trained at Parris Island, S.C., before being shipped to the South Pacific islands near Australia.

“I had quit school at the time. I heard if you don’t go in the service and the war is lost, you have gained noth ing,” he said.

He took a trip to Augusta to enlist.

“I enlisted at 17. After my training, I went to mechanic school. I was at the head of my class. The base wanted me to go to mechanic instruc tor school. I was so young, and I thought I would have a hell of a time teaching people so much older than me. So I decided not to do that,” he said.

went all right. It did have its issues in that they were work ing on it all the time. The new crew was as green as I was,” Carlson said. “It was loaded with F-6 fighters. They could start some of them. Below the deck, they had as many planes as could get in the thing. Going over there, we slept under the planes. We didn’t have anything other than our mattress.”

The U.S. Munda managed to get the marines and the planes to the destination.

“We ended up in Espiritu Santo Island,” he said. “We got on a ship totally covered with rust. It was covered with derricks on it, cranes on it. It followed the coast. It was an old ship that was originally on coal and was converted to oil. One that you couldn’t sit down to eat a meal. You had to stand up, rails around the table. They had canvas bunks, anywhere from four to five high,” he said.

Carlson spent about eight (8) days being transported on the ship.

“I could look over the back end and see the propel ler moving very slowly. The Japanese would have never wasted a shell on that one,” he said.

“We were replacements. We were sent to the Island of Emirau,” he said.

He learned about the coast watchers.

“They were single people who stayed on the island and had most of the com munication by radio. They were Australia’s military. If the Japanese caught one of them, they were tortured to death. They were doing quite a service. Their job was to tell where the action was happening. They were on the islands and communicated with radio. They couldn’t

Japanese where they were,” he said.

The American air crews relied on the information gathered by the coast watch ers to head to where the action was.

“We stayed very close to the enemy,” he said.

According to his log books, he went on daily bomber flights from Dec. 29, 1944, through Jan. 7, 1945. He served on 42 bomber trips during the first four months of 1945, from January through April.

The conditions outside of the bomber were inhos pitable.

“We slept in four-man tents under mosquito netting. Our clothes would mold very quickly. It was very damp conditions,” he said.

In fact, flashlights were rendered useless because the humidity would quickly ruin the batteries, he said.

“The worse place I’ve seen, the shortest bombing, was Bloody Nose Ridge. They were loading bombs on one end of the runway, and bombing the other end of it,” he said.

“All of it was quite a change from the little town of Harrison,” he said.

“At the Island of Samar, we had three F-4 fighters following us. When we started on the run, we were supposed to go to a differ ent place” than where they took off originally. The crew landed at Samar at the same time that an airstrip was being built by the U.S. Construction Battalion.

“The Construction Battalion was made up of men who were contractors. I assume they landed by boat to get the equipment off. They made us an airstrip. The fighter planes could land easy. They had to pack it down some, so a twin-engine bomb er could land,” Carlson said.

next day, we were able to take off,” he said.

World War II Ends

“When Roosevelt died it shook us up quite a bit. Then Truman took over. The atomic bomb was dropped and that stopped everything,” he said.

Despite having served in a tough job, Carlson said many Americans serving in the war had it harder and also other people deserved credit.

He does not envy the mili tary personnel who served as foot soldiers.

“Those fellows what was so hard for them is if you are near a place where there is a lot of action, the screaming of people at night that they couldn’t help. I was lucky I never had to get into that at all. Because flying, I usually had a good place to sleep. The infantry, the ground troops — they had it hard,” he said.

“The people you don’t give credit to at all are the ones that were feeding us,”

They had the K-rations. It was just like a Cracker Jacks box. It had canned meat, canned cheese spread, a cou ple of hard crackers, a couple of cigarettes and instant cof fee. It wasn’t very instant, especially in cold water. All our food was dehydrated. There was nothing frozen back then. It was all dehy drated,” he said.

“I think the ones that are feeding us did an exceptional job. They had to be there at different times,” he said.

When the war ended, Carlson traveled back to America on a hospital ship. He was discharged in August 1945.

When he initially returned home, he worked for a con struction company, but that job ended.

“Then, I had the chance of going on unemploy ment for $20 a week. I was very much against unem ployment. I didn’t believe there was any need to go on

plus room and board at Thomes Farm,” which was right on Maple Ridge Road in Harrison.

He wanted to marry his sweetheart but had to wait until he was making more money to support a family, he said.

Later, Maine Machine Products in South Paris hired Carlson. He rose to the posi tion of production supervi sor; and that was the job from which he retired.

Decades after the war, he ran across discarded military planes and took a trip down memory lane.

“One the thing that is so interesting when I was in Memphis, Tennessee, there was a military airplane dump. As they got old and no lon ger used, that’s where they got rid of them,” he said. “I was interested in the interior. I went into a lot of them. The drugs that were used in first aid kits. They were all intact. None of them had

LOG BOOK — John Robert “Bob” Carlson kept a log book of all the flights he took as a tail gunner in the South Pacific during World War II. He recorded the dates, the flight durations and the places that the B-25 flew. (De Busk Photo)

No biz license? Date in court

businesses do not,” Hawley said.

“The other businesses in town do. It is not fair to allow a handful of people not to,” Gratello said.

Grattelo said the town should take the businesses to court.

Selectman Shane agreed.

“If that is what we said we are going to do, that is what we are going to do,” Shane said.

Bridgton

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crash on Main Street. 6:37 p.m. Juvenile prob lem on South Bridgton Road.

Monday, November 21 3:35 a.m. Traffic detail on Harrison Road. 3:57 a.m. Mental health event on Kansas Road.

Two of the eight busi nesses are headquartered outside of Maine. Those are Pine Tree Waste, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, and Family Dollar, based in Illinois. Those two business es have paid the Personal Property Tax bills but have failed to get a business license.

A third business based in Naples, Chute Insurance Agency, is up-to-date on its tax bill, but has not respond ed to the town’s request to get a business license.

The other five businesses that do not have a business license are: Dana Watson & Son Building Movers, E&W Auto Repair, JMG Construction, Phil’s Heavy Equipment Repairs and Smith’s Auto Body.

Another part of the Business License Ordinance requires businesses to be up-

to-date on Personal Property Tax bills.

Earlier in the discussion, Hawley explained what had been done so far.

“Despite all of our efforts since the beginning of the year, there are eight (8) busi nesses that have refused to register, and are apparently unlicensed. Back on Sept . 15, we sent certified letters to all of these businesses on the list — letting them know that they were in violation and that as of that date, the fines were now $100 per day. As of today, these are still outstanding businesses that have not got the licens es,” Hawley said.

Grattelo asked about “Pine Tree Waste and Family Dollar, which is a national chain. They are aware, and they are not pay ing their license,” he said.

Hawley responded, “We

have sent certified notices, and they were all received.”

The paperwork associ ated with the 2022 business license violations indicated that town staff were “unable to locate the licensing authority” and there was “no response to communication” regarding Family Dollar and Pine Tree Waste.

There was a long moment of silence, which was bro ken by Grattelo saying, “So, we have sent them a notice.”

Hawley spoke

“We have made above and beyond the attempts to speak with these folks.

[Administrative Assistant] Paula [Miller] has called them. We sent them regu lar mail letter on two occa sions,” he said.

“This is all over $10,” Grattelo interjected.

“It is a $10 license,” Hawley said.

Condo project

feet of new impervious sur face.

• Project disturbance will be limited within the stream natural resource buffer (75-feet). A Maine DEP Permit-By-Rule appli cation will be submitted for work adjacent to the stream.

Burgess noted that the applicant is requesting a waiver regarding a buf fer. The proposed devel opment has been designed to include a 25-foot buf fer as outlined in the town ordinance, with the excep tion of two limited areas. A 30-foot section of the pro posed buffer is reduced to 10-feet for the construction of subsurface wastewater disposal system #2 and reduced to 20-feet for the construction of subsurface wastewater disposal sys tem #3. The reduced buf fer area will remain grass. Supplemental landscaping is proposed.

Brusini recommended that the developer put into writing an explanation as to why the wastewater system is being sited there and thus cutting back on the buffer, “overlay on site plan so it becomes dead obvious to board what the choices are” and explain why wells not included elsewhere.

“Give us a thorough explanation,” she said.

Abutter Patty Lindscott raised a concern regarding wetlands.

“There’s quite a stream there, and it’s running right now,” she said.

A Shawnee Peak resi dent filed a letter with plan ners raising several con cerns regarding “this huge development project on a tiny lot.” Those concerns included:

• Massive traffic grid lock especially during win ter peak skiing seasons — “not a safe turn for both in and out flow traffic”

• Unmitigated environ mental impacts

• Significant disturbanc es to the wild animals in that area

• Dumpster that attracts animals hence significantly increased safety concerns for the residents and pets in the area

• Severe negative impact to the streams in the area

• Lake water pollution

• Critical farmland, hab itat, and views of Pleasant Mountain in this area will be lost.

Burgess said a model of amount water “coming through the site” was done, and determined that “no wetlands would be dis turbed by this part of the project.” Retaining walls and steeper side slopes will be incorporated to ensure water protection.

One vernal pool was identified, and conversa tions were had with the Army Corp and DEP regarding developing a plan to protect the pool. One example is the con tractor would work “back wards” while doing slope work to avoid impact to the vernal pool.

Lighting levels will not exceed property lines. Amber lighting will be used along the driveway.

“The intensity and color of lights not like Hannaford parking lot,” Brusini clari fied.

Harden noted that the site is heavily wooded, with trees there an average of 60 to 80 feet. The build ings will be roughly 30 feet in height.

Developers will return with narratives regarding water, wastewater, set backs, and building color schemes at the board’s Dec. 6 meeting, at which time the hearing will resume fol lowed by project delibera tion.

Fryeburg Police

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Sunday, November 20

8:45 a.m. Alarm activat ed at McNeil Road.

3:20 p.m. Unwanted subjects at Bridgton Road store.

5:33 p.m. Officer assist on Stuart Street.

Monday, November 21

3:14 a.m. Assist fire department on Smith Street.

BIRTHDAY PARADE FOR BRUCE — Last week, a small birthday parade was held for long-time Bridgton businessman and community leader Bruce Chalmers, who celebrated his 85th birthday.

COATS FOR KIDS — Each year, the Knights of Columbus Council 11376 of Bridgton & Fryeburg provide twodozen winter coats to children in need of the winter coats. This year, the coats were provided to the Molly Ockett School in Fryeburg for distribution. The Knights of Columbus is an International Catholic fraternal organiza tion founded on the principles of charity, unity and fraternity. Pictured from left to right: Staff member Allison Moore, Grand Knight Council 11376 Henry Hoppe, Principal Emily Kirkpatrick, staff member Mandy Ladd and Bryson Herling.

Fryeburg Police

These items appeared on the Fryeburg Police Department log (this is a partial listing):

Monday, November 14

9 a.m. Domestic distur bance on Portland Street.

10:15 a.m. Shoplifting incident at Main Street store.

1 p.m. Harassment complaint on Christopher Street.

Tuesday, November 15

12:10 p.m. Animal com plaint on Wicks Road.

4 p.m. Motor vehicle crash on Lovell Road.

5:25 p.m. Served a restraining order to individ ual on Christopher Street.

6:23 p.m. Non-reportable motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Lovewell Pond Road and Meadow Lane.

8:43 p.m. Traffic com plaint on Bridgton Road.

8:55 p.m. Disturbance on Lovewell Pond Road.

Wednesday, November 16

4:44 a.m. Radar detail on Main Street.

10:07 a.m. Motor vehicle crash on Main Street.

6:51 p.m. Traffic hazard at Walker’s Bridge.

7:38 p.m. Motor vehicle crash on Lovell Road near Fiddlehead Campground.

Thursday, November 17

1:21 p.m. Motor vehicle crash on Main Street.

4:48 p.m. Late accident (Main Street) report filed.

5:02 p.m. Radar detail on Main Street.

6:32 p.m. Motor vehicle crash on Lovell Road.

7:51 p.m. Assist Fryeburg Rescue on West Fryeburg Road.

Friday, November 18

4:12 p.m. Welfare check at Silver Parkway.

6:07 p.m. Deer tag issued on Lovell Road.

8:59 p.m. Disturbance on Main Street.

Saturday, November 19

12:40 a.m. 9-1-1 hangup call at Carolyn Drive.

9:55 a.m. Alarm acti vated at Newold Drive; unfounded.

10:15 a.m. Disturbance on Main Street; peace restored.

1:23 p.m. Suspicious activity on Lovell Road.

6:37 p.m. Serving a war rant on Fish Street, subject arrested.

9:35 p.m. Assist Fryeburg Rescue at Old Saco Lane.

9:52 p.m. Assist officer at intersection of Main Street and Christopher Street.

Bridgton Police Department blotter

These items appeared on the Bridgton Police Department blotter (this is a partial listing):

Monday, November 14

4:46 p.m. Verbal dis pute on Ingalls Road; one individual left the property while police were en route.

5:08 p.m. Citizen assist on Willis Park Road.

5:16 p.m. Officer received a call regarding flags in town; call forward ed to Public Works.

Tuesday, November 15 12:17 a.m. Traffic detail on Harrison Road.

6:21 a.m. Noise (exhaust) complaint on Main Street;

officer unable to locate vehicle.

10:03 a.m. Officers responded to a call regard ing an assault; one person issued a summons.

5:17 p.m. Motor vehicle crash at the intersection of Harrison Road and North Bridgton Road. Wednesday, November 16 6:04 a.m. Agency assist on Hancock Pond Road in Denmark.

8:30 a.m. Alarm activat ed on North Bridgton Road; property was secure.

9:56 a.m. Vehicle off the road at intersection of North High Street and Bruce

Warren Lane.

12:03 p.m. Two vehicle crash on Portland Road; one vehicle had minor dam age, the other vehicle left the scene before officers arrived.

4:57 p.m. A vehicle col lided with a deer at the intersection of Moran Road and North High Street; vehicle sustained “moder ate” damage.

5:22 p.m. Harassment (via social media) complaint on Pond Road; officers con tacted both individuals.

Thursday, November 17 5:06 a.m. Welfare check on Pond Road.

9:42 a.m. Mental health event on Willis Park Road.

10:51 a.m. Citizen dis pute on Pond Road.

1:22 p.m. Agency assist on Whitetail Ridge.

2 p.m. Criminal tres pass complaint on Portland Road.

5:30 p.m. Theft com plaint on Portland Road.

6:46 p.m. Criminal tres pass complaint on Portland Road.

7:15 p.m. Agency assist on Smith Avenue.

Friday, November 18

2:25 a.m. A car collided with a deer at the inter section of Burnham Road

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and South Bridgton Road; vehicle sustained “minor” damage.

9:25 a.m. A male on Willis Park Road was issued a summons for misuse of 9-1-1.

6:08 p.m. Suspicious per son on South High Street.

Saturday, November 19 6:45 a.m. Theft com plaint on Portland Road.

3:48 p.m. Citizen assist on Willis Park Road.

Sunday, November 20

2:15 a.m. Assist fire department on South Bridgton Road.

3:53 p.m. Motor vehicle

BRIDGTON, Page 3A

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The home has been completely renovated throughout the years. Total of five bedrooms, 4.5 baths, three kitchens and six fire places. Each room has been given its own unique style to enjoy a little old with updated new. There is a separate entrance if you wish to continue renting the downstairs apartment, and let guest or in-laws utilize the auxiliary quarters on the second floor. Wide pine floors throughout most of the home.

The garage has added area on second floor to finish off more space if needed. Heating is a pellet boiler and FHW oil heat. All pellets for pellet boiler covered for coming season. The location is five miles from Naples Causeway, six miles from Harrison Center and 20 minutes to Bridgton area. Many lakes to enjoy, Shawnee Peak and Sunday River for skiing. One hour from North Conway, Lewiston, and Portland. Broker owned. Offered at $849,900. https://show.tours/1232naplesroadharrison

WELCOME SEBAGO TECHNICS! The Greater Bridgton Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon cutting to welcome Sebago Technics! Pictured, front from left to right: Tori Hill (Bridgton Community Development Director), Keri Montague (Bridgton Assistant Community Development Director), Bob Peabody (Bridgton Town Manager), Georgiann Fleck (Bridgton Deputy Town Manager), Cole Peters (Sebago Technics), Chamber Executive Director Angie Cook, George Sawyer (Sebago Technics), Mark Adams, Terry Bennett, Jim Seymour, Michelle Erskine, Keith McAlary, Julie Gordon, Jeff Broumas and Craig Burgess all from Sebago Technics; back row, Gary Fullerton (Sebago Technics), Heidi Edwards (Norway Savings Bank), Farwell Sawin, Sally Thompson and Matthew Ek, all from Sebago Technics. Sebago Technics provide engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture and environmental services to companies, developers, landowners and the public sector for customers and projects, both large and small.

Mount Tom in Fryeburg

The Denmark Mountain Hikers were blessed with an atypical warm late fall day for our climb to Mount Tom in Fryeburg on Friday, Nov. 4. Not only were the skies blue with only a few wispy cirrus clouds, but the temperatures were in the low- to mid-60s, encourag ing two of our hikers to do the climb in shorts! Only a slight breeze was blowing at the summit, and most of the hardwood leaves had fallen from the trees, filling our senses with the smell and sound of fall as we walked.

Hiking were 17 Denmark Mountain Hikers. We met at the West Side Trail parking lot and shuttled everyone up to the Old Trail trailhead up the Menotomy Road about a mile, to avoid hav ing to hike the road back to the cars when we finished the hike on the other side of the mountain.

The Old Trail is an old wagon road that was built in the 1800s to carry guests from the hotel on Menotomy Road to the summit. The West Side Trail was built a few years ago by the Nature Conservancy. The Mount Tom Preserve is a 995acre parcel owned by the Conservancy and includes wetlands on the Saco River floodplain and 3,500 feet of river frontage, as well as about half of Mount Tom, including part of the west, south and east slopes of the mountain.

by Allen Crabtree

The Old Trail takes 0.9 miles to the summit, and the West Side trail at 1.8 miles. We left the Old Trail trail head at 8:40 a.m., reaching the summit in two groups about an hour later. We started down at 10:35 a.m., with the first group reach ing the West Side trailhead at 11:45. The baker of our group, Rick Dennen, had homemade brownies and our poet, Susan Gassett, had a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay for every one at the summit.

The trails were thick and deep with fallen hardwood leaves, so deep that in many places the trail was hard to follow. On the steep por tions coming down from the summit, the leaves were slippery and rocks and roots were hidden. Several of the hikers kicked the worst of the leaves to the side, and one of our group used a bundle of branches as a rough broom to sweep the trail clear for easier and safer hiking. We didn’t have the advantage of a leaf blower, but a recent fall res cue on Mount Israel used one to aid in evacuating an

injured hiker slipping and sliding on the leaves. We’re not going to be adding one to the gear we haul up and down mountains anytime soon, however.

Near the West Side trail head there is a well-pre served granite foundation of an old farm house and barn, and nearby a water well walled with stones. This was the Evans farm on the 1858 map, also if you follow Monotony Road to the other trailhead, the class VI road continues to the river. There, Thomas Kilburn Holt had a farm on the Saco River.

Mount Tom –Roche Moutons

During the last ice age, over 50,000 years ago, every mountain and val ley in New Hampshire and Maine was covered with a thick layer of ice. When the last of the ice melted about 10,000 years ago it had shaped the land and left behind stories of what it had done. Mount Tom in Fryeburg is one of these stories in our backyard.

As you cross the Saco River bridge while driving north on Route 302 from Bridgton towards Fryeburg look off to your right. Mount Tom looms over the Saco River, and is a won derful example of how the ice age glaciers shaped and molded our landscape.

Mount Tom is a sheep back, or Roche Moutons, and its distinct shape has a gently sloping and abrad ed up-glacier (stops) face and a quarried (or plucked) down-glacier lee cliff

face. The up-glacier side of Mount Tom is on the left (or north) side as you view it from the Saco River bridge, and the quarried cliff face is on the right (or south) side. The distinctive shape of Mount Tom can be clearly discerned from several nearby summits as well – it is easy to spot.

We have hiked Mount Tom several times, and the two trails offer a nice vari ety of hiking conditions. The scent and crunch of fall leaves underfoot on a picture-perfect autumn day made the hike memorable and very enjoyable.

Mount Tom in Oxford County, Fryeburg, Maine Difficulty – Easy

Trail distance to the sum mit (one way) – approx. 0.9 miles on the old trail, 1.8 miles on the conservancy West Ridge trail

Hiking time to the sum mit (one way) – 1/2 hour – 1 1/2 hour depending on the trail taken

Elevation – 1,073 feet

Vertical gain – 578 feet Coordinates – 44° 02’ 30” N 70° 55’ 00” W 44.10567; -71.094

Topo Map – USGS Fryeburg

Directions to the old trailhead – Take US Route 302 East from Fryeburg and

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turn left onto Menotomy Road. Follow Menotomy Road for 2.3 miles to the Menotomy Road Cemetery on the right. Parking is along the side of the road at the cemetery. The trail starts just north along Menotomy Road at a barn on the same side of the road, and initially goes near several homes. Please stay on the trail and respect the private owners who have allowed hikers to go through their back yards.

Directions to the Nature Conservancy trailhead – Take US Route

302 East from Fryeburg and turn left onto Menotomy Road. Follow Menotomy Road for 0.9 miles to the Mount Tom Trailhead on the right. There is a large trailhead parking lot (not plowed out in winter).

The Nature Conservancy Preserve is open for day use only, and they ask that group size be limited to 12. Please carry out all of your trash. Dogs and domesticated animals are not allowed on the pre serve. No fires, fireworks or smoking. ATVs, bikes, and vehicles are prohibited.

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DENMARK MOUNTAIN HIKER Mary McEvoy at the summit ledges of Mount Tom with Pleasant Mountain in the distance. (Photo by Allen Crabtree)

DENMARK MOUNTAIN HIKER Mary McEvoy at a large cliff face on the Mount Tom trail. (Photo by Allen Crabtree)

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LR grad earns Faculty Award

Central Community College (in Columbus, Nebraska) biology instruc tor Dr. Lauren Gillespie, formerly of Casco and a 2004 graduate of Lake Region High School, received the Nebraska Community College Association (NCCA)’s Faculty Member Award at the annual conference on Nov. 6-7.

Gillespie was CCC’s first recipient since 2011. She joined the CCC fac ulty in January 2017.

Gillespie is the coproject director of the National Science Foundation-funded scholarship pro gram “Growing Pathways to STEM” (Project GPS), which uses a cohort model, undergraduate research experiences and industry relationships to further student success. She established a framework for the research program known as the Bluebird Project, where students helped establish nest-box trails both on campus and in the local community and collected data from the local bluebird population.

During a routine lab session, Gillespie discovered a population of barn swallows exhibiting partial albinism leading to several local and international research col laborations, elements of which she integrates into her classroom and laboratory activities so that students are experiencing real science in real time.

She was recently published in a top journal, Molecular Biology and Evolution, as part of an international col laboration of researchers studying the mitochondrial genomes of all barn swallow subspecies.

Lauren, the daughter of Posy and Kevin Gillespie, earned her bachelor’s degree in Animal Behavior: Hormonal/Neural Mechanisms in 2009 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she played field hockey. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Endocrinology, Behavioral in 2016 from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Lauren went on to be a field research assistant at Texas Tech University, a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Southern Mississippi and adjunct instructor at Central Maine Community College.

She was selected for the East Asia and Pacific Southern Institutes for U.S. Graduate Student Fellowship in 2016 in Taiwan to research exposure of contaminants on aggressive behavior, contest dynamics, testosterone (T), and cortisol (F) in the mangrove killifish

Lauren serves as a Board of Director for Big Pals & Little Pals of Greater Columbus, whose mission is to provide caring role models to young children from single-parent homes, promoting self-improvement and growth through positivity and encouragement.

“I am so excited to contribute to this organization and share my passion and energy for science (and birds!!) with an incredible group of committed individuals and wonderful children!” wrote Lauren when selected to serve on the Board.

Lions’ Student of the Month

Larissa Harmon of Bridgton has been select ed as the Bridgton Lions Club “Student of the Month” for November.

Each month, area Lions Clubs recognize a Lake Region High School senior based on academ ics and volunteerism in school and community services. The recipient is honored at a Lions’ dinner meeting and is presented a monetary award.

Parents: Michael Harmon, Mollie Harmon Activities: I work at The Summer Camp in the summers, a camp for low income and foster care girls.

Hobbies: I enjoy teaching archery, working, and spending time with my family and friends, especially my little sister.

Future plans: I want to go to college at UMA. My path is undecided from there, but my main goal is to make the world a better place.

Q. What do you believe are three keys to being a good student? Show up. Be present.

Reach out for help before you are over your head.

Q. What is your favorite class? I loved my Consumer Math class that I took. I not only learned a lot, I learned in all of my classes, but I learned things that I use every day.

Q. Who is your favor ite teacher? My favor ite teacher is Ms. Pulito, not only does she take the time to teach me the curriculum but she cares about me. When I look back on my high school career, I am so thankful she was a part of it.

Q. If you could change on thing about your educational experi ence, what would it be and why? I would have

Weston joins

The Board of Directors for the Kendal C. & Anna Ham Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of John Weston to the Bridgton/ Fryeburg Advisory Board.

John joins Tom Chalmers, Laura Ordway, Michael Friedman, and Melissa Rock on the board.

John is a principal with Weston Farm and cur rently serves as a Trustee of the Fryeburg Fair. He is past president of the

Fryeburg Academy Alumni Association and has been involved in several nonprofit organizations in the area.

The Ham Foundation also serves the Mt. Washington Valley, which has its own Advisory Board. Both boards report to the Full Board for final deci sions on grant applications. The duties of the

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Rotary Club’s Good Citizen

Kyan Macdonald of Bridgton has been select ed as the Bridgton-Lake Region Rotary Club’s “Citizen of the Month” for November.

Each month, the Rotary Club recognizes a Lake Region High School stu dent who displays good citizenship and contributes to the school community. The recipient is honored at a Rotary breakfast meeting and is presented a mon etary gift.

Parents: Binaca Hanson and William Macdonald Activities: Student Summit president, Chess Club, Founder of Team Kyan

Hobbies: I like to read, work with computers, swim, and research cur rent events.

Future plans: I plan to go to college and then pos sibly enlist in the Navy.

Q. What do you believe are three keys to being a good citizen? I believe that in order for one to be a good citizen you have to be involved in your community, respect ful to others around you, and you must be able to respectfully disagree with people.

Q. What piece of advice that you have received that has made a difference in your life? When I was hospitalized for a lengthy period of time and things got really tough, my mom always told me “One thing, one day at a time.” That quote from my mom has stuck with me since I was 11 and will continue to be with me for the rest of my life. Whenever things are difficult or I have to make a tough decision, I

always remind myself of her words.

Q. Who is your favor ite teacher? I have mul tiple favorite teachers and I wouldn’t want to leave any out. I will say that the best teachers I have had in my educational career have encouraged curiosity and given that curiosity room to grow in the class room. They are invested in the success for all of their students. They see students as not just stu dents, but people, too.

Q. How have you tried to make your school/ community a better place? I try to always say “hello” to people or ask how they are because I believe that helps people be seen. I also try to thank my teachers, as well as our school custodian and people who work in the cafeteria because I appre ciate the work they do for us.

When I founded Student Summit with Ms. Shorty, we were trying to give students a platform to have their voices be heard and to bring for ward the changes that they wanted at Lake Region High School. I also hoped to elevate those concerns to school administrators because sometimes kids don’t have enough of a KAYAN, Page 8A

Dr. Lauren Gillespie

Laker fall honors

Lake

include:

All Academic (Senior athletes with a grade point average of 3.2 or higher)

Cross-Country: Ezra Gronlund, Carly Dyer, Caitlin Lees, Elizabeth Brewer

Field Hockey: Samantha Donahue

Girls’ Soccer: Melissa Mayo, Olivia England, Adison Keefe

All Conference

Boys’ Soccer: Jacob Chadbourne, first time, All-State recipient; Josiah England, second team

Girls’ Soccer: Emily Rock, first team; Bella Smith, honorable mention; Abby Lavoie, honorable mention

Field Hockey: Emma Nadeau, first team; Reannah Dingley, second team; Ashley Pelletier, second team

Football: Jackson Libby, second team; Brock Gibbons, honorable mention

Golf: Evan Duprey, hon orable mention

Volleyball: Olivia Pearson, second team

Cross-Country: Abigail Roberts, first team, New Englands; Sam Laverdiere, first team, New Englands; Grady Kemp, first team; Bhavnish Tucker, second team; both the LR boys’ and girls’ teams qualified for the State Championships.

Deer hunt list

Jimbob’s Store, Denmark

Thursday, November 10: Stephen Beck, buck, spike horn; Kevin Allen, buck, 6 points; Shawn Wegener, doe; Jesse Allen, buck, 147 pounds, 4 points; Devin Hood, doe, 127 pounds; Keith Sannela, doe; John Schoenfield, fawn doe; Jonathan Hill Sr., buck, 171 pounds, 6 points; Tom Treece, buck, spike horn; Gretta Sens, doe; Nathan Hill, button buck.

Friday, November 11: George Lapointe, buck, 6 points; Alfred Snow, buck, spike horn; John Delrosso, button buck; Kaden Emery, doe; William Warren, buck, 132 pounds, spike horn; Derrick Walker, buck, 161 pounds, 7 points; Richard Viera, doe, 97 pounds; Kevin Hurton, buck, 5 points; Jeff Fantoli, doe;

Kerry Arsenault, doe; James Grasso, doe; Greg Hamilton, buck, 6 points; Stephen Champa, buck, 159 pounds, 3 points; Steven Champa, doe, 127 points; Ronald Cox, buck, 203 pounds, 6 points; Jason Bartlett, buck, 148 pounds, 6 points; Sean Palmgren, buck, 107 pounds, 3 points; Todd Norris, buck, 172 pounds, 8 points; Brian Cranney, doe; Paul Sullivan, button buck; Donald Harding, doe; David Lee, doe; Jake Schoenfeld, doe; George Finn, buck, 207 pounds, 8 points; Josh Ratcliff, buck; Dylan Ricci, buck, 184 pounds, 7 points; Luke Beal, fawn doe; Jaxon Burke, buck; Samantha Kimball, doe, 114 pounds.

Saturday, November 12: Dana Dantilio, buck, 146 pounds, 8 points; Michael Kenney, buck, spike horn; Paul Lord, button buck; Danny Knapp, buck, 194 pounds, 8 points; Emma

Adams, buck, 186 pounds, 7 points; Greg Hesslein, buck, spike horn; Jeffrey Antoine, buck, 4 points; Daniel McDonnell, buck, 145 pounds, 4 points; Christopher Huntress, doe, 105 pounds; Tyler Schaffer, buck, 197 pounds, 8 points; Harvey Thombs, buck, 157 pounds, 7 points; Nicholas Thombs, buck, 183 pounds, 8 points; Steven Kiesman, button buck; Creed Kiesman, but ton buck; Cameron Pelletier, buck, 154 pounds, 7 points; Landon Knittwed, doe, 98 pounds; Robert Mitchell, buck, 107 pounds, 6 points; Matthew Mullins, button buck; Mark Macdonald, buck, 159 pounds, 8 points; Richard Snow, buck, 3 points; James Brow, buck, spike horn; Patrick Riley, doe.

Monday, November 14: Jimmy LaPointe, buck, 176 pounds, 7 points; Daniel Richards, buck, 10 points; Phil Richardson, doe; Robert Fitzcharles, buck, 100 pounds, spike horn; Mark Harmon, buck, 181 pounds, 6 points; John McLaughlin, doe; John Short, buck, 10

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FA fall athletes honored

Raider athletes were honored for their fall accomplishments at the Fryeburg Academy Fall Sports Awards:

Team awards went to: Golf — Ethan Lord, Most Improved; Tom Ontengco, Coach’s Award.

Cross-Country — Isabel Macht, Coaches’ Award; Sullivan Olsen, Most Improved.

Mountain Biking — Austin Dorner, Coach’s Award; Owen Reinbach, Most Valuable Player.

Field Hockey — Eliza Thorne, Coaches’ Award; Grace Murley, Coaches’ Award.

Girls’ Soccer — Ginger Priestman, Raider Award; Sally Baptista, Most Improved Player.

Boys’ Soccer — Jacob Adams, Raider Award; Will Guthro, Raider Award.

Football — River Pullan, Raider Award; Gabe McKenney, Raider Award.

All-Conference Selections

Boys’ Soccer — Jacob Adams, second team; Rafael Ajimura, second team; Florian Koeppel, second team; Matteo Sbuell, honorable mention; Matteo LaPorta, honorable mention.

Football — Haden Fox, second team; Owen Galligan, second team; Gabe McKenney, hon orable mention; River Pullan, honorable mention; Gunnar Saunders, honor able mention.

Golf — Sean Davis, All-Conference.

Field Hockey — Eliza Thorne, first team; Grace Murley, first team.

Girls’ Soccer — Ana Maillett, second team; Ashleigh Bariteau, second team.

All-Academic Selections

(Senior athletes with a grade point average of 3.2 or higher)

Boys’ Soccer — Patrick Drosa.

Football — Myles Garland, Gabe McKenney, Caleb Micklon.

Field Hockey — Lily Amazeen, Alegra Bartlett, Grace Murley, Abigail Paulding, Eliza Thorne, Sam Winterbottom.

Golf — Daniel Day, Ainsley Foster, Tom Ontengco.

Girls’ Soccer — Ashleigh Bariteau, Ally Southwick, Mia Zimmel.

Cross-Country — Kacey Clark, Andy Irwin, Chris Kwon, Isaac Twombly-Wiser.

Three Star Jacket Recipients (An athlete that has earned three varsity let ters)

Seniors — Abby Ontengco, Abigail Paulding.

Juniors — Natalie Berry, Emily Chaine, Boone Douglass, Landon Felix, Joey Fusco, Ana Maillett, Asher McKenney,

Heather Shackford, Olivia Towne. Sophomores — Aiden Clement, Seamus Coleman, Sierra Fox,

Brayden Greaney, Quinn Hagerty, Reid Irwin, Michael Malia, Phoebe Sartory, Rayna Wales, Bridget Whelan.

LAKER TEAM AWARDS were recently presented to members of the LRHS varsity field hockey team, under the direction of Coach Pauline Webb. Pictured left to right, Emily Reardon, Most Improved (varsity); Katherine O’Connor, Most Improved (junior varsity); Maddie Meserve, Coach’s Award; and Mya King for Rookie of the Year. Not in the photo: Olivia Roy, Spirit Award (junior varsity).

LAKER CONFERENCE AWARDS — Members of the Lake Region field hockey team were recently named all-conference selections. They include (pictured left to right) senior Reannah Dingley, WMC 2nd Team AllConference; junior Emma Nadeau, WMC 1st Team All-Conference and MFHA All-State Team; junior Kasey Johnson, WMC Honorable Mention; junior Ashley Pelletier, WMC 2nd Team All-Conference. Not in the photo, senior manager Samantha Donahue was recognized as Academic All-State. Named to the NFHCA Academic Squad were senior Samantha Donahue; juniors Ashley Pelletier, Emily Reardon, Maddie Meserve, Emma Nadeau, Kasey Johnson, Hanna Siebert and Mallory Smith.

Region High School athletes named to the Western Maine Conference All-Academic and AllConference teams for the fall season

COACHES’ AWARD selection, Grace Murley, pictured with Assistant field hockey coach Jen Bartlett (left) and varsity head coach Dede Frost.

COACH’S AWARD for golf went to Tom Ontengco, pictured here with varisty coach Chris Dutton.

FIELD HOCKEY Coaches’ Award went to Eliza Thorne, pictured with Assistant field hockey coach Jen Bartlett (left) and varsity head coach Dede Frost.

RAIDER AWARDS in football went to River Pullan (left) and Gabe McKenney, who are pictured with FA head coach David Turner.

CROSS-COUNTRY Coaches’

Award went to Isabel Macht, pictured here with Raider coaches JP Krol and Corey Dow.

Jimbob’s, Jordan’s deer lists

points; Kevin Johnson, buck, spike horn; Jesse Harrington, doe; Allan Reed, buck, 8 points; John Dubois, doe; Richard Medeiros, buck, 125.5 pounds, 4 points; Alfie Walker, doe, 124.5 pounds; Gabriel Durgin, buck, 176.5 pounds, 12 points; Scott Davidson, doe.

Tuesday, November 15: Jonathan Tenney, doe; Matt Day, buck, 192 pounds, 5 points; Nathan Day, buck, 168 pounds, 9 points; Joel Guptill, doe, 117 pounds; Brittany Libby, doe; Rex Wiley, buck, 182 pounds, 10 points; Ashtin Harding, doe, 112 pounds; Kevin Elliot, buck; Timothy Greene, buck, 156 pounds, 5 points; Barry Kallander, buck, 147 pounds; Catherine Mitchell, doe, 104 pounds.

Wednesday, November 16: Reginald Day, doe, 94 pounds; Patrick Estes, doe;

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enjoyed the ride more. I have always been goal driv en and that all I cared about was getting my goal. I wish I would have taken a breath and tried a new thing, put myself out there and had more fun.

Q. What accomplish ment are you most proud? I am so proud of the impact that I have made on the people around me.

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voice.

Q. What accomplish ment are you most proud of, and why? Like a lot of my peers, I am really proud of what I have overcome. The adversity that I have faced has forced me to make some tough choices and those choices have given me the chance to grow.

Thomas Jordan, buck; Jason Brant, buck, 115 pounds, spike horn; Dale Mitchell, buck, 4 points; Kieth Dehner, buck, 156 pounds, 8 points; Eric Durgin, buck, 106 pounds, 4 points; Carey Martin, doe; Kayli Goodwin, fawn male; Gregory Harding, doe, 120 pounds; Vernon Ladd, doe, 138 pounds; Scott Blood, doe; Jeffrey Antoine, doe.

Jordan’s Store, Sebago Thursday, November 3: Timothy Sanborn of Naples, buck, spike horn; Joseph Kenney Jr., Standish, doe.

Friday, November 4: David Brown, Sebago, buck, 175 pounds, 9 points; Michael Doughty, Standish, buck, 4 points; Robert Gardiner, Westbrook, doe; David Grennell, Plymouth, Mass., buck; Charles Watters Jr., Standish, doe; Scott Olsen, Sebago, doe; Seth Merriam, Bridgton, buck, 120 pounds, 8 points.

Saturday, November 5: Jacob Harmon, Standish, doe; Natasha Russell, Gorham, doe; Robert Grondin III, Gorham, doe; Brian Hannon, Sebago, buck, 120 pounds, 3 points; Joe Curesky, Sebago, buck; Steven Emery, Naples, buck, 4 points; Brian Babson, Atkinson, N.H., buck, 147 pounds, 6 points; Ethan Williams, Sebago, buck, 149 pounds, 8 points; John Lambert, Naples, buck; Jeffrey Clarke, Sebago, doe; Michael Stone, Gorham, buck, 7 points.

Monday, November 7: Dylan Miner, Baldwin, buck; Todd Thornton, Sebago, buck, 170 pounds, 8 points; Brian Boyman, Wahiawa, Hawaii, buck.

Tuesday, November 8: Charles Watters Jr., Standish, doe; Stephen Bearor, Buxton, buck, 3 points; Tucker Warren, Sebago, doe; Andrew D’Amore, Marlborough, Mass., doe; Michelle Luce, Sebago, buck, 117 pounds, 4 points; Curtis Pease Jr., Gorham, doe; Justin Smith, Sebago, doe; Carl Dubois, Harrison, buck, spike horn.

Wednesday, November 9: Tyler Carroll, Gorham, buck, 150 pounds, 8 points; JT Cross, Gorham, buck, 125 pounds, spike horn; Philip Carpentiere III, Sebago, buck, 153 pounds, 8 points; Greg Cutting, Sebago, buck, 176 pounds, 9 points; Brian Knott, Windham, buck, 8 points.

Thursday, November 10: Gunnar Harriman, Sebago, buck, 155 pounds, 7 points; Charles Watters Jr., Standish, buck, 7 points; Travis Dunnells, Cornish, doe; Steve Moreau, Standish, buck, 5 points.

Friday, November 11: Edward Dippilito, Bridgton, doe; Erik Christensen, Sebago, buck, 6 points; Nate Theriault, Baldwin, buck; Tanner Vacchiano, Sebago, buck, 109 pounds, 4 points; Michael McGovern, buck; Joe J. Murphy II, doe; Jacob Fleck, Naples, doe; Justin Smith, Sebago, buck, 8 points; Kasey Johnson, Harrison, doe; Josh Clark, Limington, buck, 219 pounds, 11 points; Jonathan Grant, Gorham, buck, 220 pounds, 10 points.

Saturday, November 12: Robert Robicheau III, Mass., buck, 8 points; John Rogers Jr, doe; David Wilder, Standish, buck; Aaron Cox, Raymond, buck, 142 pounds, 7 points; Howard Drager, Baldwin, buck; Joshua Fogg, Sebago, buck, 181 pounds, 6 points; Jacob Anderson, Sebago, doe; Glenn Maines, Standish, buck, spike horn; Sean Libby, Gorham, buck

(first deer), spike horn; Tony Vacchiano, Sebago, buck, 185 pounds, 8 points; Ryan Dunlap, New Gloucester, doe, 127 pounds; Edward Dippolito, Bridgton, buck.

Monday, November 14: Dan Rogalski, Marlborough, Mass., buck, spike horn; Mike Vacchiano, Sebago, buck, 154 pounds, 10 points; Glenn Edwards, Sebago, doe; Gene Bahr, Sebago, buck, 168 pounds, 8 points; Gene Bahr, Sebago, doe; Dave Lymburner, Sebago, buck, 6 points; Kane Mason, Sebago, buck, 8 points; Walt Ridlon, Lewiston, buck, 153 pounds, 8 points; Charles Frechette, Sebago, buck, 187 pounds, 8 points.

Tuesday, November 15: Ray McIntyre Sr., Standish, doe; Kaytlin Dibiase, Portland, buck, spike horn; Gene Putz, Gorham, buck, spike horn; Gary Robbins, Raymond, buck, 6 points; Reginald Legardre, Saco, buck, 166 pounds, 8 points; Zachary Cook, Gorham, doe; Laine Simard, Sebago, doe; Lynn Campbell, Sebago, doe; Stephen Perkins, Etters, Pa., doe.

Wednesday, November 16: Michael Pflieger, Standish, buck, 3 points; Allan Wilson, Westbrook, buck, spike horn; Steve Vacchiano, Sebago, buck, 168 pounds, 8 points; Dylan Reinhard, Naples, buck, 4 points; David Nagy, Falmouth, buck, 171 pounds, 7 points; Tyler Ross, Baldwin, buck, 7 points; James Woodman, Windham, buck, 3 points.

Santa shuffle NFI North’s Bridge Crossing will hold its sec ond annual Santa Shuffle benefit 5K race and Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 3. The event benefits Bridge Crossing Academy (7 Nulty Street in Bridgton). 9:30 a.m. Children’s Fun Run — The day will start with some dashing through the snow led by one of Santa’s favorite Elves! 10:30 a.m., 5K Walk/ Run — You’ll run through the seven levels of the Candy Cane Forest, past the sea of twirly-swirly gum drops and back to Bridge Crossing Academy where hot cocoa and festivities await!

Race Day registra tion opens at 8:45 a.m. Individual 5K Walk/Run registrations are $25 ($35 on Race Day); kids are free if pre-registered ($10 on Race Day). To register for the event, visit www.nfinorth. com/santa-shuffle

For more information about this event, including sponsorship opportunities, please contact Alisa Gibson at 603-647-4404 or e-mail Alisa Gibson at alisagib son@nafi.com

Bridge Crossing pro vides a safe and loving ref uge for young children ages 5-14. The guiding vision is

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Advisory Boards include the review and recommen dation of grant awards to community non-profits. Their involvement in the Fryeburg, Bridgton Maine and Mt. Washington Valley, New Hampshire communi ties provide the Foundation with invaluable perspective on the needs of its residents and the non-profits operat

ing in those communities. The Ham Charitable Foundation was established in the mid-1990s from the estate of Kendal C. and Anna Ham. They had lived for many years in Conway, N.H. and had a lakeside summer cottage on Moose Pond in Bridgton. These communities were welcom ing and important places to the Hams, and Anna decided that they should be the pri mary focus of their philan thropic efforts.

Since that time, the Foundation has distributed millions of dollars to dozens of non-profit organizations that provide needed services to the residents and visitors of these communities.

More information about the Foundation or to request funding can be found at HamCharitableFoundation. org. or contact the Executive Director, Dot Seybold at 603-356-3389 or Director@ HamCharitableFoundation. org.

a commitment to help chil dren return to their family or another home-like set ting. BC provides special ized treatment and educa tion to assist them through their journey of healing and ultimately help them find their happily ever after. Proceeds from the Run for the Children 5K ensure that children at Bridge Crossing receive the best possible care, including a more robust children’s activities pro gram, increased education assistance, special services to families, and intensive therapies for children over coming trauma. With over 24 years of caring for chil dren, Bridge Crossing has a unique understanding of providing a safe, nurturing environment for children in crisis and the value of keep ing families together follow ing trauma.

NORWAY — The fifth annual Turkey Trot 4 Hope Scenic 4 Mile Run or 1 Mile Run/Walk will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, at 9 a.m. at the Norway Fire Station, 19 Danforth Street, Norway.

The event benefits the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine (CRCofWM).

You can register indi vidually or as a team at raceroster.com/59121. All Maine students K-12 can register for free, thanks to a very generous donor. Nov. 1 registration increases to $30.

CRCofWM’s mission is to embrace anyone affected by cancer in a community that offers hope and caring through support, education and concepts in healthy liv ing. CRCofWM offer one to one support, free wellness programs and classes, sup port groups, travel and food assistance, and comfort items to anyone impacted by cancer because no one should face cancer alone.

For more information www.crcofwm.org or 207890-0329.

Opinion & Comment

election is over. The cas cade of television ads get more disgusting with each election.

Trying to connect

To The Editor:

Some weeks ago, in the midst of my campaign for Maine State Representative, I met a fellow from Sebago who had many years of experience with Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services. As I recall, he and his wife have been providing much need ed children’s foster care through DHHS. He spoke of his grave concerns about the ways the program is operated, and concerns he and his wife shared with many other foster care fami lies. But at the time, he and I were both in the middle of grocery shopping, so I took his phone number so I could arrange to meet with him later. Somehow, I misplaced that note!

If someone reading this Letter to the Editor has any idea who this gentle man is, please express to him my apologies for not following through, and ask him to e-mail or phone me at 207-272-2728 or MarkWalker4ME@gmail. com. Thank you.

Mark Walker Representative Elect Maine House District 84

Winter Market

To The Editor:

The Bridgton Winter Farmers’ Market has begun. Thank you to the Masonic Oriental Lodge #13 for the Saturday morning rental space. It is warm, clean and has bathrooms. Thank you to all our customers that have found their way to the winter location at 166 Harrison Road in Bridgton. The vendors were pleased to welcome returning cus tomers and very excited to see many new faces sup porting local farmers, bak ers and artisans. Supporting your local farmers is a way to assure they can contin ue supplying healthy local food for your communi ty. Stop by for a visit on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Thank you Farmers’ Market customers for all your support of your local farmers.

Dottie Bell Thunder Hill Farm, LLC Waterford

The disaster continues

To The Editor: Thank God the 2022

The American people have spoken, and it appears the clear majority are per fectly happy with the per formance of President Biden and his party. Many Americans believe that Biden’s presidency has been a disaster of epic propor tions. I can’t think of a sin gle program that Biden has rammed through a pliable Congress that hasn’t been a disaster for the American people.

In throwing open America’s borders to all who want to come here, Biden has allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country without being vetted, so we have no idea if they are criminals, ter rorists, or just want to take advantage of our massive welfare state.

Democrats have made many of our major cities unlivable because of their coddling of criminals and their defunding and total lack of support for the law-enforcement commu nity. Police departments are experiencing severe staffing shortages, making it very difficult to protect the pub lic.

Democrats have deci mated the military with their fixation on wokeness and gender bending.

American schools are in terrible shape because of Democrats selling out to the teachers’ unions whose prime goal appears to be critical race theory and child sexuality, as our stu dents fall farther behind their peers worldwide.

Joe Biden is undoubt edly the most incompetent, vindictive, and divisive president in American his tory. When the full extent of the Biden family’s business dealings are made public, Americans will be horri fied. Biden’s ineptness will plague America for decades to come.

Angus King, Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden should be a shame that they have backed Biden’s disas trous policies literally 100% of the time.

Robert M. Howe Jr. Bridgton

And on it goes

To The Editor:

We’re all familiar with the expression “you can’t please some of the people any of the time.” Apparently, Mr. StL falls into that category. It’s a bit of a mystery what small percentage of his time is spent being happy, because every time we hear from him his agita is engaged.

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Time for the Festival of Lights

Howdy neighbor!

Do you remember the Festival of Lights? The inaugural winter carnival of the area holiday season, the Festival of Lights annually features a parade, a tree lighting, music, food, and of course a visit from Santa Claus, scouting out his local route some weeks in advance of the big day. We have it every year, and have done so for quite some time; even through the pandemic, when we took the parade on the road for a longdistance drive through the several villages of town!

A mainstay of our local cultural traditions, it is firmly planned for every year; we had it last year, and we’ll have it next year, and this year it is about to arrive on Saturday, Dec. 3. But the reason I ask if you remember the Festival of Lights, is because for more than the last decade, well-nigh verging on two now, the festival has lacked what I’ve long considered a crucial element; it’s eponymous Lights. For other winter festivities, as for February’s Winter Carnival or the Christmas Parade of our neighboring town of Harrison, such parades and celebrations take place in the daytime, and for good rea son. Both because it is light and much easier to navigate, and also because as winter wears on, being outside after dark is at best a chilly prospect, and at worse quite perilous. So why then, at our festival to celebrate the opening of winter – often held after it has already snowed and the temperatures dropped – do we all bundle up to line the streets at night, in the dark, to see a parade? There is good reason for this, and it lies in an element of the celebration, which seems to have fallen away

In Ye Olden Times

by Michael Davis BHS Assistant Director

from public’s memory with time – the lights themselves.

From the days when I was a child, I can still remember the Festival of Lights, and though we called it by the same name in those days, I find now that it does not entirely resemble the celebrations of today. Because my memories of the festival, while including the tree lighting and the parade and good old Saint Nick, are primarily tinged with vanished scenes of car olers, hot cider in little cups, and trudging through the snow in company with neighbors, friends, and strangers to sing at the doors all along Main Street. It was cold, but we each had a bit of warmth to carry with us, for every hand bore cups, glasses, mason jars or tin lanterns from which light shone hot and clear; tea lights and birthday candles and dinner-tapers cut down to size all burned, bright and warm in the night, and when the parade signal began with a tolling of the church bells, each one of these light-bearers left the sidewalk and

Re-envisioning Thanksgiving

With Thanksgiving here, it’s worth revisiting some of the holiday’s most cherished expressions. In such a revisiting, we can discover not only the gaps between aspirations and lived realities, but also redemptive pos sibilities.

Take, for example, one of the most iconic of Thanksgiving images: Norman Rockwell’s painting, “Freedom from Want.” In the painting, a family, a white family, sits around a table. As the matriarch sets down a plump turkey before her seated clan, the glow from a background window casts a luminous image of togeth erness, abundance, anticipation.

Rockwell painted the picture in 1943 as one of four paintings that became covers for the Saturday Evening Post, covers that illustrated and idealized the four free doms President Franklin D. Roosevelt had espoused in his January, 1941 State of the Union Address.

Roosevelt had articulated these freedoms (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want) to rouse support for Great Britain in its war with Nazi Germany and to define values that could help motivate and guide America’s own war pre paredness. Inspired by Roosevelt’s vision, Rockwell’s paintings and Post covers gained instant popularity, and

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by Andrew Moss Emeritus professor at California State Polytechnic University

the paintings toured the country in an exhibit that helped raise millions in war bonds.

What is less remembered, however, is that each of the Post covers were accompanied by essays composed by well-known writers, including the labor activist, poet, and novelist Carlos Bulosan. Bulosan’s brief essay on freedom from want is particularly worth reading today, for he not only presented a vision of America starkly different from Rockwell’s; he also prophetically addressed issues that continue to vex the nation today.

Though Bulosan alluded to the fight against fascism, he devoted most of his essay to the struggle within America: a struggle for economic justice and human

The Presidential Turkey Pardon

the bird to follow him around the White House grounds. On Christmas Eve, the President tried to tell his son that the bird would become the family dinner. Upset, Tad reportedly cried, “I can’t help it. He’s a good turkey, and I don’t want him killed.” Lincoln gave in and wrote out a pardon on a card, which he handed to his son to appease him.

“Tad was begging for the turkey’s life,” said Dr. Wayne Temple, an accomplished Lincoln scholar who recently retired as Deputy Director of the Illinois State Archives in Springfield. “Lincoln was always looking for something to amuse the children, so he pardoned the turkey.”

The President’s playfulness reflected other episodes with his children. In 1861, he had written a pardon for a soldier doll, also named Jack, that Tad and older brother Willie (who died the next February) had sentenced to death.

Truman, who was the first to receive a gift bird from the National Turkey Federation in 1947. However, officials at the Truman Presidential Library in Missouri have found no evidence of any pardons given by Truman to a turkey.

His successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, ate each of the birds given to him during his eight years in office. Four days before his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy offhandedly said of a 55-pound gift turkey, “we’ll let this one grow.”

The first President on record to deliver a pardon was Ronald Reagan in 1987, allegedly to draw attention from reporters’ questions on the Iran-Contra affair. No turkeys were spared the following year, but in 1989, Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, instituted the pardon as an annual rite.

By Tom Emery Guest Columnist

Each year just before Thanksgiving, the President cer emoniously pardons a turkey, a light-hearted moment in his otherwise grueling schedule. The tradition is traced to Abraham Lincoln, who wrote a pardon at the behest of his youngest son, Tad, in 1863.

Though the origin is debated, many researchers believe that Lincoln was the first to bestow a Presidential pardon on a turkey, thus saving it from the dinner table. The reprieve, though, was actually issued at Christmas.

In late 1863, the Lincolns received a turkey as a gift, and though the bird was intended for Christmas dinner, nine-year-old Tad, an animal lover, had other ideas. He made a pet of the bird, which he named Jack, and taught

In 1997, Bill Clinton referenced Lincoln’s story in cer emonies to pardon a sixty-pounder named Willis. George W. Bush also made reference to Lincoln’s pardon in 2001.

“Lincoln is probably the only President with the sense of humor to pardon a turkey,” laughed Temple. “Other Presidents have been more serious-minded, but that’s how Lincoln could be.”

Some of Lincoln’s successors have shown less inclina tion. After President Obama’s first turkey pardon in 2009, one commentator found that the chief executive “did not seem all that thrilled with his role” Seven years before, when a female turkey — a 30-pound gobbler named Katie — was pardoned for the first time, G. W. Bush absent mindedly twice called the bird “he.”

While many researchers credit Lincoln as the first President to issue a turkey pardon, others cite Harry S.

Two turkeys are normally chosen for the ceremony, one serving as an alternate, to stand in if the first bird can not fulfill the duties. In 2008, Bush pardoned the backup, Pumpkin, after the top turkey, Pecan, came down sick the night before the ceremony.

In recent years, reprieved turkeys have been sent to var ious locations in Virginia, including George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon and a place in Fairfax County called Frying Pan Park. From 2005-09, the turkeys were flown first-class to Disneyland to serve as grand marshals of Disney’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Today, the annual ceremony to pardon the turkey usually lasts a few minutes and provides a prime photo opportunity for the President and members of his family. The White House frequently invites children to join the ceremony, adding to the holiday festivities.

Tom Emery is a freelance writer and historical researcher from Carlinville, Ill. He may be reached at 217-710-8392 or ilcivilwar@yahoo.com.

HORSE SENSE — Horses pastured in Bridgton model blaze orange shoulder vests intended to keep them safe during the current hunting season. (Photo by Suzanne Richard)

Last week, instead of basking in glory at the mis guided electoral decision Mainers heaped on them selves, he felt compelled to “dis” the good people of Florida and their governor.

By the way, referring to DeSantis as Il Duce must fit the description of a word ending in “ist” or “ism,” according to the Wokeys, don’t you think? Tsk, tsk!

Funny, he characterizes DeSantis acceptance speech as a rant. Hmm. I listened to that speech and would describe it as joyously, ebullient reflecting satisfac tion of the overwhelming endorsement of his political beliefs by his constituents. Ordinarily, I would dismiss that characterization out of hand, but perhaps some

reflection is appropriate because if anyone can rec ognize a rant, that would be Mr. StL as that’s right in his wheelhouse.

I understand why Mr. StL is confused. I am too trying to figure out what an “animated arcane paranoid construct of a nation’s his torical racial reckoning” is. Whew! Help anyone?

The rest of his commen tary serves only as a fine example of his deficien cies in self-awareness, as his blistering comments are totally oblivious to the irony of the projectionism he’s engaging in.

Oh well, nothing further to do here other than wait for his next “rant” about how screwed up any one is who doesn’t share his twisted view of the way things are, and the way things should be.

Don Vose Naples

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The need for global unity

If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, our best option is to adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II.

To date, most of our “leaders” have been far more likely to do what young Greta Thunberg has labeled, “Blah, blah, blah.” Pressure from all of us has never been more needed.

Multilateral institutions have all too often failed to fulfill their mandate. António Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, publicly acknowledged the failure of the UN Security Council, the organ of the United Nations tasked with ensuring global security and peace, to prevent or end the Ukraine war.

The Security Council has been ineffective because it is composed of five permanent members — the United States, China, Russia, France, and Britain — that have veto power that routinely blocks any resolution set forth to cope with conflict, as Russia has repeatedly done with respect to the Ukraine war.

Although there is a general consensus that the cli mate crisis must be addressed internationally, climate accords tend to be legally unenforceable and are easily stymied by disagreement over which countries are most responsible for cutting back on fossil fuel emissions and how to establish a roadmap for emissions reduction.

For example, the Paris Accords require countries to set their “national determined contributions,” which can be lax or stringent, and rely mainly on peer pressure to promote compliance.

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by Jacopo De Marinis Citizens for Global Solutions

record amounts of dirty coal, is failing in every regard except the “blah, blah, blah” from Xi Jinping, who promised China will finally peak its carbon and possibly methane output by 2030 — although he is conspicuous ly absent from the highest level negotiations in Egypt.

Nor do our current global institutions seem capable of securing nuclear disarmament. Nuclear weapons states (NWS) like Russia, China, and the United States have recently failed to honor their nuclear disarmament commitments, with the Russian government refusing to back the final draft of an updated declaration on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Furthermore, China, the United States, Russia, and the six other NWS have declined to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

To effectively address these transnational threats, we need to begin strengthening and transforming the United Nations into a democratically elected world federation. This is a colossal yet imperative task cur rently promoted by the World Federalist Movement and its U.S. member organization, Citizens for Global Solutions.

You have earned the progress

I am proud of all that we have accomplished together in the last four years.

We expanded lifesaving health care to more than 95,000 people.

We fully funded our schools for the first time in Maine history.

We gave teachers a pay raise.

We made community college free for recent high school grads.

We cut taxes for retirees, we delivered property and income tax relief, and we put $850 back into your pocket to fight inflation – the strongest inflation relief measure in the country.

We invested in our workforce and in small businesses. We’ve balanced every budget and we’ve built up the Rainy Day Fund to a record high — all without raising taxes.

All of this is not because of me. It is because of you, the people of Maine. You deserve every ounce of hard-won progress we have achieved, and you have earned all the progress that is yet to come.

There are challenges ahead, like addressing the high cost

by Janet Mills Governor of Maine YOU’VE EARNED IT, Page 4B

PUBLIC NOTICE AUCTION NOTICE

Lake Region Safe Storage Online Auction

Lake Region Safe Storage will be having an online auction for unit 133, Villeneuve, starting on November 30, 2022, to satisfy all liens due to default of payment.

Contact Lake Region Safe Storage at 207-8038497 for more information. 2T46

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PUBLIC NOTICE

WINTER PARKING BAN

Beginning November 18, 2022 – April 15, 2023 no vehicle shall be parked on any public street or way from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., as per MRSA 29A Section 2068-2069 and the Bridgton Traffic Ordinance adopted January 10, 1995 and amended August 27, 1996 and October 25, 2005.

A town-wide parking ban may be called for with notification. Vehicles may be towed at owner’s expense.

Thank you for your cooperation, Public Services Department Town of Bridgton 1T47

PUBLIC NOTICE

Town of Waterford

PLANNING BOARD

The Waterford Planning Board will hold a public hearing on December 21 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss:

• Proposed revisions to the Waterford Site Plan Review Ordinance regarding noise standards

• A proposed ordinance regarding yard and garage sales

Additionally, a public site walk will be held on Saturday, December 3 at 1 p.m., to walk the proposed Morse Home stead Subdivision on the corner of Hunts Corner Road and Bisbeetown Road. The board will meet on the west side of Hunts Corner Road just before the intersection with Bisbeetown Road.

Public welcome.

Information regarding the Morse Homestead Subdivision application, proposed Site Plan Review Ordinance revi sions, and Yard Sale Ordinance is available at the Water ford Town Office. 2T47

Furthermore, the backing of the largest emissions contributors, the United States and China, is crucial if these agreements are to be effective. Neither nation is remotely close to meeting the minimum that climate scientists agree is needed. This is abysmally poor “lead ership.”

International action on climate change was greatly hindered by the U.S. government’s decision against rati fying the Kyoto Protocol, just as the Paris Agreement suffered greatly when the Trump administration decided to pull the United States out of it. China, still burning

Why is a world federation necessary? As the phi losopher Emery Reves argued, the Industrial Revolution ushered in an economically and physically interdepen dent world while leaving political decision-making power in the hands of individual states.

This is a lawless system that gave rise to the world wars. The only way to prevent conflict is to transfer some political authority to a higher source: a world gov ernment. Norman Cousins, former editor-in-chief of the Saturday Review , put the need for world federalism in

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Time for the Festival of Lights

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massed in the street, an army some hundreds strong.

The Festival of Lights used to be exactly that, a festival of our citizens turning out to face the dark, cold advent of winter, and stand firm together despite it, holding up each their little flame of light and the promise it held of summer’s warmth beyond the snow, and together walking arm in arm our frozen streets in grand procession against the blustery storms which are to come. It seemed to my childish eye, that all these little lights carried carefully down from our dark homes and massed together, did in fact brighten and warm the night, and certainly they did so when, leading the parade, our citizen’s procession at last reached the massive Christmas tree on Depot Street, and the light we all carried was ceremoni ally transmitted as if by magic to the tree itself, which burst to light and color in a thousand twinkling bulbs. The band played on, and our candles guttered, and we stood together awash in the holiday radiance we had built. Do any of our

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Public Notice

TOWN OF NAPLES Planning Board Meeting

The Naples Planning Board will hold a meeting on Tues day, December 6, 2022. The meeting will be in person at the Naples Town Hall Board Room located at 15 Village Green Lane starting at 6 p.m. On the Agenda:

An application for a modification to a site plan ap proved in 1989 for the property owned by Karen Swaim to modify her property lines (Tax Map R04, Lot 23-6)

An extension request for BWC Brandy Pond, LLC for a plan approved December 7, 2021, (Tax Map U52, Lot 96)

Plans may be viewed online at www.townofnaples.org.

The public is welcome to attend the meeting. Any ques tions or concerns please contact codeoffice@townof naples.org 2T47

readers remember this? I am sure that many do.

I cannot say why this element of the tradition has lately fallen out of public practice, but in the loss of it our parade has become less of an event for families to participate in, and more an event to simply watch. While I don’t know about you, this seems to me a regrettable change, and one I’d like to take steps against. Some of you may have noticed that every year since then, there could still be seen in the back of the crowd, at least one little flame a flicker; my fam ily must have missed the memo, for I have continued bring ing a light to every Festival. Several years ago, I had others notice and ask about it, and I would tell of how things were, and the next year there were three, and the year after a few more, and I began to hope that we could organically restore the tradition — but then the pandemic came, and when last year the Festival returned to Depot Street and our in-person gatherings, I was again the only one to bring a light.

But no longer. The Bridgton Arts and Culture Committee is proud to announce the return of this tradition to this year’s Dec. 3 Festival of Lights. The parade is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. at the elementary school, and from there will proceed into town to begin its loop of Main Street and Depot Street. If you’d like to bring a light of some kind, I’d like to see you there. Now common sense is necessary here. We will have no uncovered candles as a matter of principle, and honestly it doesn’t even have to be a candle — in truth they often burned out or were blown out – so an electric light or lantern will serve wonderfully, and is certainly safer, as well. As head of this this part of the parade, I am asking all residents interested in joining the procession of lights to gather in a central location at the Bridgton Historical Society, from which we can easily walk to join the parade when it reaches Main Street. This procession will then walk before the parade along its route to the Community Center, where the tree lighting will commence as of yore. Our sig nal to assemble will be the tolling of the bell in the former Methodist Church, now owned by the Historical Society and in which we will be putting on a pre-parade holiday open house from 3 to 5 with cookies, music, and a rare bit of old festive history to share. When this is done and the bell rings, we will assemble outside, light our lights, and await the arrival of the parade.

I urge all readers with an interest in this celebration and who feel up to the trek, to turn out and join us. It is quite lit erally the more the merrier, and promises to be an excellent start to the holiday season. I hope to see you there!

Till next time!

Public Notice

TOWN OF NAPLES Board of Appeals Meeting

The Naples Board of Appeals will hold a meeting on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. The meeting will be in person at the Naples Town Hall Board Room located at 15 Village Green Lane starting at 6 p.m. On the Agenda:

A setback variance requested for property located at 81 Beach Road (Tax Map U29A Lot 35), owned by Clifford Nadaeu.

A setback variance requested for property located at 142 East Shore Beach Road (Tax Map U43 Lot 29), owned by Frank Silver.

An administrative appeal of a December 16 deadline to complete corrective measures outlined in a Notice of Violation issued by the Code Enforcement Officer (Tax Map U36 Lot 03).

Plans may be viewed online at www.townofnaples.org. The public is welcome to attend the meeting. Any ques tions or concerns please contact codeoffice@townof naples.org 2T46

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Re-envisioning Thanksgiving

dignity. Coming to the United States as a teenager in 1930, he had experienced first-hand the hardships of agricultural labor as well as the racism directed at him as a Filipino immigrant.

Addressing his readers in the plural first-person, as “we,” Bulosan wrote from the point of view of working people — individuals who didn’t view freedom as an abstract value, but as a concrete manifestation of eco nomic justice:

“…we are not really free unless we use what we pro duce. So long as the fruit of our labor is denied us, so long will want manifest itself in a world of slaves. It is only when we have plenty to eat — plenty of everything — that we begin to understand what freedom means.”

Bulosan made clear that such freedom is not a “gift” that is philanthropically bestowed. It must, he said, be struggled for: “But sometimes we wonder if we are really a part of America. We recognize the mainsprings of American democracy in our right to form unions and bargain through them collectively…”

And he posed a challenge to the America that had been for him a less than hospitable home: “We are the mirror of what America is. If America wants us to be living and free, then we must be living and free. If we fail, then America fails.”

SWEDEN — Alice C. (Tower) Brown, 97, passed away at home surrounded by her family within a circle of love. She was born December 20, 1924, in Sweden, Maine, the eldest daughter of six, born to the late Clayton and Chris tine (Fox) Tower.

As a child, she attended a sin gle-room schoolhouse in Swe den through grade eight until she was called upon to live with her Uncle Guy and Aunt Wymene Tower to work on their farm. Years later, as a busy mother, she passed her GED, thus complet ing her education.

She joined the Sweden Grange in 1940 until they closed then joined the Bear Mt. Grange in South Waterford where she was a member until they closed in 2019.

She was active in the community as a member of Sweden Community Church and the South Bridgton Church, often vol unteering to bake for their community suppers. She took great joy in cooking for others and when asked what she thought she would be remembered for she pondered for a moment and an swered, “my lemon meringue pies.”

As an adult, she worked several years in the Bridgton Dress Shop and Pleasant Mountain Moc, and all the while still having time to raise a family. Always an avid gardener, she worked for hours in a greenhouse built by her husband in 1960 and loved growing beautiful flowers and vegetables. In the evening she could often be found canning and pickling her harvest for future use.

They became members of the Crazy 8s Square Dancing Club and could often be found dancing with her husband in matching outfits which she had sewn, performing in many of the New England states. She loved traveling with the club and enjoyed spending time with the friends she made.

For her entire life she lived in a modest home in Sweden, only a few miles from where she was born, and although she travelled to several parts of the country, as well as Canada and Germany, if asked, she would say that returning to Sweden with wonderful memories was her favorite part of every trip.

She is predeceased by her parents Clayton and Christine Tower, her sisters, Eva Newcomb, Thelma Dadman, Janet Moynihan and Edith Kimball and her Uncle and Aunt, Guy and Wymene Tower.

She leaves behind to cherish her memory her loving hus band Stanley and her beloved sister Irene Tower. Her fam ily, the oldest daughter, Linda Dutil of Sweden, with her children Jacob Stetser, and Laura Gerry. Sandra and husband Don Dolan of Las Vegas, Nev., their children Phillip Tingley, John Tingley, Melissa May, and Amanda Hadden. Their son, Stanley and wife Jackie, of Falls Church, Va., and his daugh ter Laura Taylor. Then her youngest daughter, Susan and her husband Wayne Farrington of Summerfield, Fla., and their son Scott, along with thirteen great-grandchildren, Brandon, Hailey, and Dylan Capano, Martina, Arianna, and Tristan Tin gley, Issack, Ethan, and Austin May, and Gia Hadden, Austin, Brady, and Addison Farrington, and a recently added greatgreat-grandson, Emmett May.

For many decades, Alice and Stanley lived a wonderful life of up and downs, and November 24 of 2022, would have marked their 72nd wedding anniversary together. Without fail, every night before they went to sleep, they would gaze into each other eyes and say, “Good night, I love you”. Those words will still continue, even after her passing.

There will be a celebration of her life on November 26 in the dining hall at the Fryeburg Fair Grounds, Fryeburg, at 1 p.m.

November 24, 2022, The Bridgton News, Page 3B

Letters

Today, the challenge posed by Bulosan is more sharply defined than ever, with 33 million Americans living in households that are food insecure, with indi cations pointing to a deepening crisis of homelessness, and with the extreme inequality of American society continuing to rise.

Carlos Bulosan died tragically young (mid-40s), in 1956, of tuberculosis-complicated pneumonia, but not before producing many other works, including his powerful and moving fictionalized memoir, America is in the Heart. The message in his “Freedom from Want” essay is as important to recall this Thanksgiving as is the radiant image in Norman Rockwell’s painting.

Rockwell conveyed the joy of human gathering, a joy recognized by later artists whom he inspired to recast his Thanksgiving tableau more inclusively. Their versions honor America’s rich diversity of ethnic, racial, and gender identity and expression, expanding the representations of the holiday moment — when time seems briefly and joyfully suspended.

Carlos Bulosan, on the other hand, calls his readers to the work yet unfinished — to the journeys yet to be taken on a true road to freedom.

Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor (English, Nonviolence Studies) at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Philip Brown

Auburn — Philip Brown, 64, of Dixfield, died early Thursday morning at the Hospice House in Auburn. He was born in Port land, December 11, 1957, a son of Howard and Anita (Charles) Brown. He worked for many years doing seasonal jobs from a short order cook, to the potato harvest in the Fryeburg area, to shipping oranges and shrimp. He most recently worked at Po land Spring Bottling as a fork lift operator in the Poland Spring Plant.

He enjoyed old hot rods, fish ing, going to camp, watching television car shows, and col lecting bottles; especially Poland Spring Bottles.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia (Blodgett) of Dixfield, whom he married at camp on Webb Lake on Aug. 19, 2000; daughters, Rebecca Burrington (Harold) of Norway and Jen nifer (Jeff) Souza of Buckfield; grandchildren, Abigail of Lewiston, Xavier of Norway, and Wynter of Buckfield; greatgrandchildren, Jamison and Minnie of Lewiston; brothers, Rodney and David of Mass.; sister, Gail Graves of Fryeburg.

Nancy J. Myers

Nancy J. Myers entered back into the Lord’s arms on October 28, 2022, surrounded by her lov ing son and daughter in law at the age of 77. She was a remarkable mother of two children, Gregory and Patricia and she was truly loved by many.

Nancy was born to Lawrence and Barbara Evans of Rockland, Mass., on July 25, 1945. She at tended Rockland High School where she met her love of her life and future husband Michael W. Myers. After graduation she attended Chandler School for Woman in Boston for Administrative Education. Michael and Nancy married in 1967 and welcomed a son Gregory in 1969 and daughter Patricia in 1975.

Family and friends were always the most important thing to Nancy. Everyone who knew Nancy felt her big heart and giving nature. She was gentle and kind to all. She enjoyed spending time with family, scrapbooking, gardening, canning and was a fantastic cook. She loved listening to music, playing her organ and was a devoted member of the United Methodist Church in Naples Maine for many years.

Nancy is predeceased by her husband Michael in 2004. She is survived by her son Gregory and his wife Monica from Law ton, Okla., their children and grandchildren, daughter Patricia and her children of Columbia, N.H. Brother Richard and Cath erine Evans of Hingham, Mass., Carol and Edward Souza of Hanover Mass., and Kenneth and Deborah Evans of Plymouth, formally of Hanover, Mass, and sister-in-law Linda McCarthy of Wesley Chapel, Fla. She also has four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Tell me again…

To The Editor:

For the second year in a row, CMP customers will see their “standard offer” electric ity supply rates rise by 49% on Jan. 1, 2023! The standard offer rate was 6.4 cents per

Massachusetts will hit 24.6 cents in January!

Tell me again how you save money after buying a $60,000 electric vehicle (EV) and then you have to recharge it?

Many Mainers who are living on a fixed income will face the dilemma of heat or eat this winter. People could die.

The Biden administration and the media like to blame rising costs on Russia’s inva sion of Ukraine. But, the graph (shown here) shows the actual

kilowatt-hour in 2021, 11.8 cents in 2022, and will be 17.6 cents in 2023. PUC fig ures show that nine out of 10 Mainers are on the standard offer. Utility regulators blame high natural gas prices on the continued surge in cost.

If you think that is bad,

time line for the rise in costs started the day Biden took office, when he cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, stopped drilling in Anwar, stopped the licensing of oil drillers on government property and then dramatically increased

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Roberta Melbye peacefully passed away at her home on Long Lake on November 5, 2022. Rober ta Louise Hills Melbye was born on April 11, 1937, in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was the only child born to Jo seph B Hills and Louise J. Hills. Roberta grew up in Lexington, Mass., and attended school there. She later attended Boston Univer sity. She worked as an Electronics Librarian at the Stone and Webster Company in Boston.

Roberta married her high school sweetheart William Bill Melbye of Lexington in June 1957. They were blessed with three children William, Susan and Beverly. In 1975 they also built their lakeside home on Long Lake in Bridgton. There, Roberta enjoyed her gardens, playing Bocci, snowmobil ing, and hunting. Roberta especially enjoyed boating out to Long Point. Roberta and Bill loved scuba diving and made many trips to Cozumel, Mexico. Roberta was a member of the Red Hats and she enjoyed lunches with these ladies.

Roberta is survived by her hus band Bill of Bridgton, who was a loving caregiver to her in her final days. He set a goal of caring for her at home, and met this goal with the loving support of their children, friends, neighbors and the staff of Beacon Hospice. Roberta is also survived by her three children. These include William and his wife Daria of Harrison; her daughter Su san Rice of Stoddard, N.H.; and her daughter Beverly and her husband Richard Tringale of Lexing ton, Mass. She is survived by her grandsons Michael Rice and his fiancé Angela, David Rice and his wife Renae, and Nicholas Tringale. She leaves three great-grandsons Mason, Justin, Kea gan and a great-granddaughter Amelia. She enjoyed time with her special caregiver Jessica Elliott. She also leaves her beloved cats Lightening and Boggs.

The family is planning to hold a celebration of Roberta’s life at their family home in Bridgton in the spring of 2023, when her plants and flowers are in bloom. Donations in Roberta’s memory can be made to the Harvest Hills Animal Shelter in Fryeburg or to The Beacon Hospice in Lewiston.

Warren’s Florist ~ Always Fabulous Florals ~ ~ Fruit & Gift Baskets ~ ~ Ganz Plush Animals ~ Balloons ~ 39 Depot Street, Bridgton, ME 04009 207-647-8441 • 800-834-8407

In Loving Memory of Sherry D. Bois

©2019 MKJ Marketing We just completed a major renovation to be more comfortable and up-to-date for today’s families. And Chandler Funeral Homes is constantly advancing and offering more services than any other funeral homes in the area. Family and friends attending services now have a stunning reception area to share a meal after the service. Also, our casket selection is now online for your convenience. Improvements all done with our families in mind to give quality service above and beyond the rest at affordable prices. While we are adding more, we are still committed to keeping our prices fair. That’s one important reason we are the most preferred funeral home and we won’t ever forget that. 45 Main St. • South Paris (207) 743-8402 Fax: (207) 743-0497 26 W. Dwinal St. Mechanic Falls (207) 345-5691 Greenleaf Chapel 37 Vernon St. • Bethel (207) 824-2100 Oxford Hills Funeral Svc. 1037 Main St. • Oxford (207) 743-0270 Wood Funeral Home 9 Warren St. • Fryeburg (207) 935-2325 www.ChandlerFunerals.com Family Owned and Operated 8 Elm St., Bridgton (207) 647-5502 Always Improving Family Owned & Operated It is an honor for us to serve the families of this community with compassion and care. To learn more about us and check our pricing please go to: www.chandlerfunerals.com Our Locations: ©2019 MKJ Marketing We just completed a major renovation to be more comfortable and up-to-date for today’s families. And Chandler Funeral Homes is constantly advancing and offering more services than any other funeral homes in the area. Family and friends attending services now have a stunning reception area to share a meal after the service. Also, our casket selection is now online for your convenience. Improvements all done with our families in mind to give quality service above and beyond the rest at affordable prices. While we are adding more, we are still committed to keeping our prices fair. That’s one important reason we are the most preferred funeral home and we won’t ever forget that. 45 Main St. • South Paris (207) 743-8402 Fax: (207) 743-0497 26 W. Dwinal St. Mechanic Falls (207) 345-5691 Greenleaf Chapel 37 Vernon St. • Bethel (207) 824-2100 Oxford Hills Funeral Svc. 1037 Main St. • Oxford (207) 743-0270 Wood Funeral Home 9 Warren St. • Fryeburg (207) 935-2325 www.ChandlerFunerals.com Family Owned and Operated 8 Elm St., Bridgton (207) 647-5502 Always Improving TF29 8 Elm St., Bridgton (207) 647-5502 Eric Nelson, Owner and Funeral Director 165 QUAKER RIDGE RD., CASCO, ME 04015 207-627-4538 • HALLFUNERALHOME.NET TFr51

In loving memory from her husband Paul The love of my life, my soulmate

Alice C. Brown

Global unity

context of the atomic age, arguing that the advent of the nuclear bomb made national sovereignty “obsolete.”

How can a world government be created? One key pro posal is to strengthen the United Nations by transforming the General Assembly into a world legislature that can pass bind ing resolutions. Richard Hudson, a world federalist, argued that such a legislature could employ a procedure for decisionmaking that would increasingly bring democracy to much more of the world.

World federalists also advocate reforming the UN Security Council by revoking the veto and increasing the num ber of permanent members on the Council, key reforms

supported by figures like Brazil’s newly-elected president, Lula da Silva. Other key suggestions include creating an “International Disarmament Organization” and strengthening the International Criminal Court.

The newly created world government could be equipped to effectively address climate change, interstate conflict, and nuclear proliferation. Each country’s national military could be reduced to what is required for internal policing, divert ing military budgets into domestic infrastructure that would enhance its citizens’ quality of life.

An “international peacekeeping force” could be created to enforce world law and prevent interstate conflict as part of an international executive branch. Furthermore, the democrati cally elected world legislature could require the complete dis armament of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.

There is also increasing advocacy for the creation of an International Court for the Environment, which could provide an enforcement mechanism for climate treaties.

Many people will say that a world republic is unattainable. What country would agree to limit its absolute sovereignty? And yes, a country whose political leaders are held captive by special interests like military contractors and the fossil fuel industry might not agree to such an arrangement. Yet, if the people unite with conviction to claim their right to live in a peaceful world, free from nuclear weapons, and to enjoy an economically and environmentally sustainable future birthrights a world federal government is uniquely positioned to protect — this seemingly unattainable dream could become our reality.

Jacopo Demarinis is Social Media and Communications Coordinator with Citizens for Global Solutions.

Lettersand put an end to the excess spending to reduce inflation and then force the Biden Administration to change energy and border policies.

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of gas, heating oil, groceries, and more, but I remain hope ful about our future. Hopeful because of the millworkers in Madawaska, the potato farmers in Ashland and Caribou, the fishermen in Stonington, the new Maine citizens in Portland and Lewiston and elsewhere, the shipbuilders in Bath; the moms and dads all across this great state who are raising the next generation.

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government spending.

Joe Biden was recently asked which policies he would change, now that Republicans will take the gavel in the House of Representatives. He responded, “Nothing.” Our only hope now is that the Republicans will take control of the purse strings in January,

This is how the framers designed government with “checks and balances”, and “oversight.”

If they can’t do that, we will be facing two more years and two more winters of these ill-conceived Biden policies.

Bill Preis Bridgton

The people with backbones of steel and steady hands, compassionate hearts and creative minds, the people show ing our children that Maine can become whatever we believe and whatever we build it to be. It is for them that we will work harder than ever before to bring Republicans, Independents, and Democrats together to find ways to put money back into your pocket, to lower costs for you and your family, and to strengthen our economy so that your kids can live a long, happy, and healthy life right here in Maine.

With hope for all that we will achieve together in the years to come and with gratitude for your continued faith in me, I am honored to serve as Governor of the Great State of Maine.

Stop in

Chili & Chowder Dinner

with biscuits & corn bread, drinks & cookies

Sunday, November 27 • 3 to 6 p.m. Masonic Hall on Route 117 • Bridgton $10.00 per person.

On Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., DORETTE AMELL, fine artist and avid card reader, CREATOR OF THE MAINE ORACLE DIVINATION DECK, will be in the gallery to demonstrate and sell her beautifully illustrated, Maine inspired, divination cards. (It should be a delightful afternoon.)

DORETTE AMELL will be demonstrating The Maine Oracle Divination Deck on Sat., Nov. 26 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Hole in the Wall Studioworks in Raymond. A Maine resident, she fine artist, and an avid card read er. She has designed The Maine Oracle cards to be used immediately by those with little or no experience with more traditional systems, such as the Tarot. Each card has a prompt to guide the beginner. The more seasoned practitioner will bring to bear an additional nuance and context beyond the descriptions.

Lions support Rufus Porter

A half dozen years ago, local citizens watched in awe as a red, cape-styled house moved slowly from its North High Street loca tion to its new site down town.

As the procession reached the Civil War mon ument, the awe seemed to increase as folk wondered how the movers would get it down Main Hill with out it running away. The house movers — Dana E. Watson & Son (Maine Transport Company) team from Naples — had every thing under control. The next question came in front of the library, how will this structure ever turn the cor ner onto Church Street? With skillful, experienced maneuvering the task was accomplished and soon the Nathan Church house was on its new foundation.

The Rufus Porter Museum folk had seized a challenge and solved it. The “Art and Ingenuity” people are again facing a challenge and are in the process of solving it.

The current challenge is a $1.9 million dollar build ing fund campaign dubbed “Raise the Rufus” to fund the building of a new barn like structure on their Main Street campus. Resembling

an 1840 barn on the exte rior, the post and beam con struction will have an inte rior that will be a state-ofthe-art display area, which will focus on the exhibit of the priceless collection of Rufus Porter murals in the possession of the non-profit museum.

Despite the unusu al economic condition, the Bridgton Lions Club learned at their last meet ing that $1.3 million dol lars has been pledged to the drive. The club increased that amount by contributing $1,500 to the cause.

Rufus Porter representa

tives, Executive Director Carla Leandri Rider and Board of Trustees chair Therese Johnson, made a power-point presenta tion, which highlighted the recent accomplishment of the museum and the expan sive plans moving into the future. They told the gath ered Lions that they hoped that ground breaking for the barn would take place in the spring of 2023 and that the building would be complet ed by the following spring.

White Cane Collection

The annual Bridgton Lions Club White Cane col lection provides funds to

meet the needs of vision impaired individuals across the State of Maine. Nine local Lions held the fac simile PVC white canes on Saturday, Nov. 5 which con tained a total of $703.53 in generous community dona tions at day’s end.

Event chairman Bob Pelletier wishes to extend the club’s appreciation to Hayes Hardware, Food City and Renys, which allowed space at their facilities for the drive. A huge thank you is extended to the public for their support of Lion’s charitable efforts through out the year.

Area birth

Dahlia

6:48 a.m. at Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. Dahlia weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces.

Maternal grandparents: Amy Gerry and Brian Gerry of Harrison.

Paternal grandparents: Krystal Collins and Patrick Collins of New Gloucester.

MAGIC

Weekly Review

By Liz Howell Magic Lantern Projectionist

The Magic Lantern Innovation Center is intro ducing movie reviews from our talented longtime pro jectionist Liz Howell. This week, we are highlighting

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Marvel Studios’ new est movie release, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, does not let you down. This is the sequel to the 2018 release of Black Panther. In my opinion, it does a better

Local Happenings

Affordable Healthcare Plans

Get covered with affordable healthcare plans.

Open enrollment is Nov. 1 to Jan. 15, 2023. Enroll or change your plan. Amy March, Certified Marketplace Navigator, offers free, unbiased help over the phone and in-person. Call 207-452-2493.

The consultation is sponsored by Western Maine Community Action. Or go to coverme.gov/

Holiday Tree Lighting

LOVELL — The public is invited to the annual Holiday Tree Lighting at the Charlotte Hobbs Library on Main Street in Lovell on Friday, Dec. 2, at 6 p.m.

A family affair, Santa and the Mrs. Claus will arrive on the town fire truck to light the holiday tree and lead everyone in a sing-a-long outside! Following the light ing of the tree, you are invited to visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus inside the community room and enjoy hot chocolate, cookies and share your holiday joy.

Book Sale

DENMARK — Looking for a good book to give as a holiday gift? Check out the Denmark Library Holiday Book Sale, which is available anytime the library is open. The library is located at 121 E Main Street, Denmark; telephone 207-452-2200.

Oxford County Extension

SOUTH PARIS — The Oxford County Extension Association will hold its annual meeting and election of officers on Tuesday, Dec. 6, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The meeting is free and open to the public.

OCEA is actively recruiting new members. In part nership with University of Maine Cooperative Extension staff, members of the county Extension Association provide input on educational programming needs and oversee county budget appropriations that support pro grams for county residents focusing on positive youth development and the Maine food system.

Registration required. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact 207-7436329; extension.oxford@maine.edu.

Rae Ayer daughter of Misty Gerry of Harrison and Jake Ayer of New Gloucester, was born on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 at

$1500 CLOSER TO THEIR GOAL — The Bridgton Lions Club has donated $1,500 to the building fund currently being conducted by the Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity to a build a barn-like structure for mural display purposes on their Main Street campus. Museum Executive Director Carla Leandri Rider accepts the donation from Lion president Bob Hatch. Looking on are Therese Johnson (Museum Board of Trustees chair) and club Lions Second VP Pat McHatton, who arranged the program and presentation.

Celebration Tree at Rufus Porter

The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity’s sixth annual Celebration Tree will be shining bright ly throughout the season as a beacon of love, honor, and remembrance. Everyone can see the beautiful tree sparkling from Main Street as it stands on the Museum campus.

$10 dedications make great gifts for everyone and are a perfect holiday tradition. As we gather with friends and family, this tree will serve as a way to honor your loved ones, remember those who have passed on, and celebrate the beautiful people in your lives. Honorees will have their names published in The Bridgton News and on RPM social media accounts during December 2022. Make checks out to Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity; send to: Rufus Porter Museum, PO Box 544, Bridgton, ME 04009. Indicate name(s) of honoree(s). BN 47

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ATTENTION

Classified line ads are now posted on our website at NO EXTRA CHARGE! www.bridgton.com

HELP WANTED

MSAD72 SCHOOL DISTRICT (EOE) in Fryeburg, Maine has immediate openings: Alpine ski team coach, custodians, van driv ers, bus drivers, bus aides, substi tutes. Visit www.msad72.org, call 207-935-2600 or pick up an appli cation today at Door #10, 25 Molly Ockett Drive, Fryeburg, ME tf45

FUTURE LEADERS WANTED — Q-Team Tree Service in Naples. Visit Q-Team.com/benefits for info. tf51

FOR SALE

LITTLE GUYS FIREWOOD Cut, split, delivered. Prompt delivery. 603-960-2537 or 9356302. Fryeburg area $210 cord, over 20 miles add $10. 52t2x

$5 FOR TATTERED — U.S. Flag when purchasing new U.S. Flag 3’x5’ or larger. Maine Flag & Banner, Windham, 893-0339. tf46

DRIED FIREWOOD — Dried twelve months. Selling seasoned hardwood year-round. One cord $350, cut, split, delivered. Call 207-595-5029; 207-583-4113. maineseasonedfirewood.com 52t31x

VEHICLES FOR SALE

JESUS IS LORD — new and used auto parts. National locator. Most parts 2 days. Good used cars. Ovide’s Used Cars, Inc., Rte. 302 Bridgton, 207-647-5477. tf30

BUSINESS SERVICES

KIMBALL PROPERTY MAIN TENANCE — Fall cleanup, Bark mulch, loam, aggregates installed. Brush removal, chipping avail able. Snowplowing and sanding locally. Fully Insured. Call 207595-8321, 583-8010. 4t44x

DENMARK HOUSE PAINTING — Since 1980. Interior and exte rior painting. Free estimates. Call John Mathews 452-2781. tf40x

PRIVATE DRIVER — Transportation Service… Especially for Seniors. From shopping trips, pick-up and delivery to personal errands, airport, and special requests. Call or text your request to 207-2910193. 5t45x

WANTED

Retired Professor needs temporary or long-term housing beginning December in quiet Bridgton/Wa terford/Harrison area. Non-smoker. Have older cat. Please contact Paul at 207-393-0411. 1t47x

Annette’s Country Skillet Diner

Looking for cooks – All shifts

Sweden Tree Lighting

SWEDEN — This Saturday, Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. please join in the First Tree Lighting Event in front of the Sweden Community Church.

With the perfect tree in front of the Sweden Community Church, this idea has been talked about for a few years but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed it from happening. Now, Sweden is ready with lights, hot cocoa, cookies and sing ing of carols. There will also be a fire truck present and the Food Pantry will have a Fill the Cart for donations of much needed items that have been hard to get lately such as cereal, peanut butter, hearty Progresso soups and granola bars. The Sweden Historical Society along with the Sweden Community Church are excited to sponsor this event. All ages are welcome.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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REPLY if you are a dependable hard worker that doesn’t whine, is able to be part of a team that provides quality work, you don’t mind working 50+ hours a week earning great pay, staying fit and get ting a great tan and have a never give up attitude. Please call or text 207-557-2801 TF43rCD

The Town of Harrison is Seeking a full time Public Works Equipment Operator/Laborer. Come be part of our team. Work includes but is not limited to: all aspects of road and sign maintenance, plowing and sanding during the winter months, various town related projects requiring the use of heavy equipment. A valid Class B CDL license is required along with ex perience in the operation of heavy equipment. Manual labor is required. Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing is required. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age.

Completed applications and resumes may be dropped off at the Town Office, mailed to the Town of Harri son, PO Box 300, Harrison ME 04040 or e-mailed to: award@harrisonmaine.org. Apply by 11/25/22

THE TOWN OF HARRISON IS AN EOE. 2T46CD

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Androscoggin is seeking an experienced individual responsible for sourcing and recruiting registered nurses and clinical licensed professionals. A successful candidate will be someone who can develop strong partnerships within the team and collaborate with our hiring managers to create a remarkable onboarding experience from application to hire.

For immediate consideration, please visit www.androscoggin.org/careers or call Lynzie Pinard at (207) 777-7740 Ext. 1423.

Public Notice

TOWN OF SEBAGO

Town of Sebago Job Openings

TOWN CLERK/TAX COLLECTOR

TOWN OF HARRISON

Come join our team…The Town of Harrison is seeking a F/T Finance Officer. A four-year degree in financial management, public administration a plus or any equivalent commensurate of experience and training acceptable with the right candidate. Trio knowledge a strong plus.

Applications are available online or may be picked up at the Town Office during normal business hours. Completed applications and resumes may be dropped off at the Town Office, mailed to the Town of Harri son, P.O. Box 300, Harrison, ME 04040, or e-mailed to cnewell@harrisonmaine.org. All should be addressed to the attention of the Town Manager, Cass Newell. Applications deadline is the close of business Novem ber 25, 2022, or until a suitable candidate is found.

THE TOWN OF HARRISON IS AN EOE. 2T46CD

Due to a promotion from within, the Town of Sebago is seeking a full-time town Clerk/Tax Collector to carry out the statutory du ties of these offices as well as other highly skilled administrative, financial and clerical responsibilities. Experience working with people, having a high degree of confidentiality, paying attention to detail, having the ability to work under the pressure of multiple deadlines, and being flexible are necessary. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated administrative capacities; strong commu nication and interpersonal skills; proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel. Municipal experience and knowledge of TRIO munici pal software program is desired. Minimum requirements include possession of a valid driver’s license; several years of experience in work involving the maintenance and preparation of records and the collection and management of monies; or any equivalent com bination of experience and training. Salary is commensurate with experience. Excellent benefit package included. Submit a cover letter and resume, including current salary by mail to: Maureen F. Scanlon, Town Manager, 406 Bridgton Rd., Sebago, ME. 040293114 or by e-mail to townmanager@townofsebago.org.

PLOW TRUCK DRIVER/LABORER

The Town of Sebago is currently seeking qualified applicants for the full-time position of Truck Driver/Laborer. This position is responsible for the snow removal and sanding/salting operations, road maintenance, vehicle maintenance and other duties as as signed. Weekend, holiday and night work is likely during winter months and significant weather events. Preference will be given to applicants that hold a valid Class A or B CDL with a clean driv ing record and previous snowplowing experience. The Town of fers a wage based on qualifications and experience as well as a benefits package. Successful applicant must pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing. For an application, please visit www. townofsebago.org or contact the Town Manager at (207) 7872457. Applications should be submitted to: Maureen F. Scanlon, Town Manager, 406 Bridgton Rd., Sebago, ME. 04029-3114 or by e-mail to townmanager@townofsebago.org.

Review of resumes/applications for both of the above positions will begin immediately and continue until suitable candidates are found. The Town of Sebago is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

SIXTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION Tree at Rufus Porter Museum Honor Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season

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Bridgton Farmers’ Market recipe Kale Salad with Pecorino & Walnuts

By Nancy Tripp Bridgton Farmers’ Market

After a big day of feasting, I decided to find a recipe for a salad that would be good to eat with any of the numerous leftovers we have at home. And if you are one of those less fortunate persons who did not end up with leftovers, here is a seasonal salad that has substance and is seriously tasty and satisfying. Yes, kale can be delicious!

Pick up a bunch at the Bridgton Farmers’ Market and give it a try. It is loaded with vitamins and minerals and is

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considered one of the most powerful of the SuperFoods. This recipe calls for Lacinato kale, but any variety is wonderful in this salad.

Kale Salad with Pecorino and Walnuts from Deb Perlman of Smitten Kitchen

1/2 cup (105 grams or 3 3/4 ounces) walnut halves or pieces 1/4 cup (45 grams or 1 1/2 ounces) golden raisins

1 tablespoon white wine vinegar

1 tablespoon water

1/4 cup panko (15 grams or 1/2 ounce) or slightly coarse homemade breadcrumbs (from a thin slice of hearty bread) 1 tiny clove garlic, minced or pressed Coarse or kosher salt

3 tablespoons olive oil 1 bunch (about 14 ounces or 400 grams) Tuscan kale (also known as black or Lacinato kale; this is the thinner, flatter leaf variety), washed and patted dry 2 ounces (55 grams) pecorino cheese, grated or ground in a food processor, which makes it delightfully rubbly (1/2 cup total)

Juice of half a lemon

Freshly ground black pepper or red pepper flakes, to taste

Prepare walnuts: Heat oven to 350. Toast walnuts on a baking sheet for 10 minutes, tossing once. Let cool and coarsely chop.

Prepare raisins: In a small saucepan over low heat, sim mer white wine vinegar, water and raisins for 5 minutes, until plump and soft. Set aside in liquid.

Prepare crumbs: Toast bread crumbs, garlic and 2 tea spoons of the olive oil in a skillet together with a pinch of salt until golden. Set aside.

Prepare kale: Trim heavy stems off kale and remove ribs. I always find removing the ribs annoying with a knife, because the leaves want to roll in on the knife and make it hard to get a clean cut. Instead, I’ve taken to tearing the ribs off with my fingers, which is much easier for me. Stack sections of leaves and roll them into a tube, then cut them into very thin ribbons crosswise.

Assemble salad: Put kale in a large bowl. Add pecorino, walnuts and raisins (leaving any leftover vinegar mixture in dish), remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and lemon juice and toss until all the kale ribbons are coated. Taste and adjust seasonings with salt, pepper and some of the reserved vinegar mixture from the raisins, if needed. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving, if you can, as it helps the ingredients come

together. Just before serving, toss with breadcrumbs and, if needed, a final 1 teaspoon drizzle of olive oil.

The Bridgton Winter Farmers’ Market runs every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon through April 22. The new winter loca tion is the Masonic Hall, Oriental Lodge #13 at 166 Harrison Road (Route 117).

For a full list of vendors and information on ordering visit BFM at https://www.facebook.com/BridgtonFarmersMarket/ or contact bridgtonfarmersmarket.me@gmail.com

BFM accepts credit cards and EBT. See you there!

Advent Season Calendar

HARRISON — On Sunday, November 27, a spe cial Hanging of the Greens Worship Service will be offered at 9 a.m. at the Bolsters Mills United Methodist Church in Harrison. Directly following the service will be fellowship with refreshments.

Sunday, Dec. 4 will be a day full of festivities start ing with the 9 a.m. Advent worship service, fellowship, followed by Advent Study at 10:30 a.m.

Also, on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m., a benefit Christmas concert will be offered. Music will be offered by Tony Landsperg and David Seeley. The Christmas Concert Sing-along will benefit the hygiene bags the church is collecting for teens experiencing home lessness in the area. Come along and bring a hygiene

product to donate and get into the Christmas spirit. There will be a free will offering all to benefit the mission. Refreshments will be served.

On Christmas Eve, there will be a candlelight Christmas Eve service at 7 p.m. The service provided by Pastor Bo Jackson-Landsperg will be sure to be inspiring.

Tony Landsperg and David Seeley will be sharing in their musical talents.

On Christmas morning, there will be a service at 9 a.m. provided by Wayne and A-J Alexander along with Tony and David providing the music. This service will be an uplifting, spirit filled fun service.

The Bolsters Mills United Methodist Church is located on the Bolsters Mills Road in Harrison.

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Weekly review

job of living up to the original movie. Most sequels don’t.

In this one, King T’Challa played by Chadwick Boseman has died, and the people of Wakanda must go on with their lives. As they

mourn their beloved king, they encounter a new threat to their lives. They also have lost their hero and protector, or have they? Like the first movie, this one has many action scenes with car chases and battle action. The big

Breakfasts & Suppers

HUNTERS’ BREAKFAST

Every Saturday, starting Oct. 29 to Nov. 26, 5 to 10 a.m., at the Bridgton Community Center.

THANKSGIVING

• On Thanksgiving Day, the Morning Glory Diner team serves up a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner at no charge to folks that would like to stop by the restaurant, located on Portland Road in Bridgton. The regular menu will be offered until 10:30 a.m., the dinner will get underway at 11 a.m. and conclude at 1 p.m.

• The public is invited to a free Thanksgiving Community Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 24, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Bridgton Alliance Church, Harrison Road in Bridgton. Kids are wel come. To-go containers available. For more information, call 647-2027 or e-mail bridgtonalliancechurch@gmail.com

• Naples United Methodist Church will host a Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, Nov. 24, from 1 to 3 p.m. Anyone who is alone is invited to attend or if you just don’t want to cook a big meal. Please call 693-6594 to RSVP so we will have an approximate count.

• After a two-year absence, the free community Thanksgiving dinner is returning to St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway on Thursday, Nov. 24. On Thanksgiving Day, the Oxford Hills community is invited to share a meal with family, neighbors and friends. Dinner will begin with a blessing at noon and food will be served family-style by a friendly waitstaff.

Guests will enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with fresh, roast turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, squash and a variety of other vegetables followed by a choice of homemade pies. The dinner will be served in the parish center at St. Catherine of Sienna Church located on 32 Paris Street in Norway. There is ample parking behind the church on Beal Street. To help with an approximate count of attendees, call Catherine of Sienna Church at 743-2606. There will be a delivery service for shut-ins. Please inform the church if you know of someone in need who will be unable to get to the dinner.

CHILI AND CHOWDER

Want a break from leftover turkey? A chili and chowder dinner with biscuits and corn bread, drinks and cookies will be served at the Masonic Hall on Route 117 in Bridgton on Sunday, Nov. 27 from 3 to 6 p.m. for $10 per person.

battle scene at the climax is on an epic scale. The CGI is just as incredible as the first movie, maybe even better. The first movie mostly takes place in Wakanda; in this one they travel all over the world. The CGI does a decent job of showing us the beauty of these different places.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a movie that you need to see in a movie the ater to get the full effect. I’m giving this movie a 9 out of 10.

The Magic Lantern 4-H Innovation Center is a cre ative hub of activity focused on youth aspirational pro grams in literacy through the arts, math through design and engineering, and locally sourced food and culinary arts. The goal is to preserve the theater while utilizing the non-profit revenue-gen erating operations to help fund local youth education.

Visit MagicLantern Movies.com to purchase tickets!

Tree Sale

The Bridgton Center Village Firemen’s Association will once again be selling Maine grown Christmas trees from the Food City parking lot.

They will also be selling the “I Support Bridgton Fire Department” t-shirts (sizes youth medium and adult small to 3XL).

Tentative hours of operation will be:

• Thanksgiving Day, closed

• Friday, Nov. 25 through Sun., Nov. 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Expected hours after Nov. 27 will be as follows: Mondays through Fridays, 2 to 5 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Calendar of Area Events

Friday, November 25 to Sunday, November 27

Christmas Tree sales by the Bridgton Center Village Firemen’s Association, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Food City parking lot. Expected hours after Nov. 27 will be as follows: Mondays through Fridays, 2 to 5 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, November 26

Bridgton Food Pantry will hold its second “Stuff a Truck” challenge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Food City.

Tree Lighting ceremony at 5 p.m. at the Sweden Community Church; Christmas hymns, home made cookies.

Sunday, November 27

Jingle Jog 2K or 5K walk/run hosted by the Denmark Rec Department, 12 p.m., both races. Racers must check in at the munici pal field prior to the start of the race. Races start and finish at the Denmark Municipal Building. Preregister at denmarkrec@ gmail.com Wednesday, November 30 to Saturday, December 3 Christmas in Harrison on Wednesday, with tree lighting, letters to Santa, make your own reindeer food and visit from Santa, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Crystal Lake Park; festivities continue through Dec. 3 Thursday, December 1 Charlotte Hobbs Memorial Library Speaker Series continues at 6 p.m. with a Zoom-only poetry

reading and slide show by Sarah Carlson. The link can be found by going to www. hobbslibrary.org

Friday, December 2 Holiday Tree Lighting at the Charlotte Hobbs Library on Main Street in Lovell on Friday, Dec. 2, at 6 p.m. Gallery 302 in Bridgton (112 Main Street) would like to invite you to a meet & greet reception, in Guenol Lefeuvre’s honor, from 5 to 7 p.m. The “Textured Porcelian” exhibit runs through Jan. 2. Friday, December 2 & Saturday, December 3 Holiday Craft Fair, Norway Unitarian Universalist Church from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday Friday, December 2 to Friday, December 23 Winter Wonderland North Pole Walk present ed by the Bridgton Rec Department at the Town Ice Rink, free of charge (donations accepted, pro ceeds to the After-School Enrichment Programs). Christmas music, decorated rink for the holidays, walk through, fun for the whole family. Hours listed at the town hall gym and ice rink and the town website, bridg tonmaine.org Saturday, December 3 Santa’s Workshop for Kids Only Shopping, pre sented by the Maple Grove Grange, 8 a.m. to noon at the Potter Academy gym, (Bridgton Road, Sebago).

Snowflake Fair , Lovell United Church of Christ, 1174 Main Street, 10 a.m. to noon, balsam wreaths, berry bowls, baked goods and gifts. Take-out lunch will be available, proceeds benefit the Mission’s Committee’s Christmas baskets for area families.

Drive-up Lunch, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Lovell United Church of Christ. Choice of homemade corn chowder, biscuit and dessert or tuna sandwich, chips and dessert. Cost $5 per person. Drop by or call Joyce at 928-3132 to reserve a meal. Proceeds benefit LUCC Christmas baskets for families in the community.

Festival of Lights Craft & Vendor Fair from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bridgton Town Hall Gym (26 North High Street). Vendors can sign up at bridgtonmaine.org or call Rec Director Gary Colello at 647-1126. Festival of Lights Parade theme is Candy Land. Parade line up is at 5:30 p.m. on Depot Street. Parade route: start at Stevens Brook Elementary School bus loop, left down Portland Road (Route 302), left down Main Street, left down Depot Street past Community Center. Tree lighting and community party at 6:30 p.m. at the

Community Center.

Christmas Village Fair, Casco Village Church, United Church of Christ from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.!

Texas Hold’em, JacksonSilver Post 68, 595 Gore Road, Locke Mills. Doors open 11 a.m., games begin 1 p.m. $50 buy-in, high hand option. BYOB (anyone under 21 must be accompa nied by a parent or guard ian). Pull tabs. Meals and beverages available. FMI, Legion Office 875-2375.

Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4 Craft Fair, K.R.E., 974 Roosevelt Trail, Naples, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Handmade items, floral designs, antiques and white elephant. Something for everyone.

Sunday, December 4

Christmas Tree Lighting Bradley Park, Fryeburg at 6 p.m. Sing carols, enjoy refreshments and meet Santa. Fryeburg Academy’s Chorus will be there to lead the carols; Interact Club will be handing out refresh ments; Rev. Alison LaneOlsen will say a blessing; Fryeburg Fire will be drop ping Santa off for pictures.

Saturday, December 10 Cookie Walk at the First Church, 33 South High Street, Bridgton, 9 a.m.

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